Cool! Vice Mayor Armuji Says Vaccination In Surabaya Is 100 Percent, Herd Immunity Has Been Formed

Illustration-An elementary school (SD) child is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Surabaya (ANTARA)

SURABAYA - Surabaya City Deputy Mayor Armuji said the vaccination target for doses one and two had reached 100 percent so that herd immunity had been established.

"This is the main provision to look at 2022 with optimism, we will protect the pandemic and encourage the economy to grow," he said in Surabaya, Antara, Saturday, January 1.

According to him, the implementation of the first dose of vaccination in Surabaya has reached 119.4 percent with 2,648,335 people and the second dose of vaccination has been carried out 101.43 percent with 2,249,782 people.

The case of COVID-19 in Surabaya is also getting sloping. Even referral hospitals in Surabaya are currently more flexible in taking care of non-COVID-19 patients.

According to data from the COVID-19 Task Force as of December 31, 2021 at 17.00 WIB, the cumulative number of COVID-19 is 67,078 and only one case has increased from December 30, 2021. The cure rate has reached 64,512 or 96.18 percent and the cumulative death rate is 2,557 people.

"For the percentage of healing in the city of Surabaya, it exceeded the recovery in the province which was only recorded at 92.54 percent," he said.

He thanked all health workers, regional officials to the lurah, sub-district and even village officials from RT, RW, who have helped the Surabaya City Government in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery.

In fact, he continued, the turnover of traders from a total of 48 Culinary Tourism Centers (SWK) in the city of Surabaya was recorded to have started to creep up. One of the reasons for this increase was the slowing down of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was followed by a number of concessions.

"This is based on the observations of friends from the Cooperative Service," said Armuji.