President Jokowi: Vaccination Achievements Increase. Already Injected

President Jokowi/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 was increasingly under control and vaccination achievements had increased or reached 301 million doses.

“Vaccination achievements also continue to increase. Until yesterday, 301 million vaccines have been injected to our people," said President Jokowi as quoted from the official Instagram account @jokowi in Jakarta, Thursday.

If detailed from this amount, the first dose of vaccine injection is 85 percent of the target recipients, and the second dose is 58 percent. In addition, the President said, booster vaccinations have been started to be injected since January 12, 2022.

"We have also started a booster vaccine (booster) since January 12," said the President.

He said the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is getting better day by day, must be used to generate optimism and trust in the community, and for business actors to continue economic activities and other productive activities.

"The better handling of the pandemic must be used to generate optimism, and to give greater confidence and trust to the community and to business actors to immediately resume economic activities and other productive activities," he said. momentum when Indonesia is in an important phase of economic recovery. Economic indicators, said the President, also continue to show improvement. In addition, economic stability and the financial system are well maintained. "A strong foundation to accelerate recovery," said President Jokowi.