TNI Encourages Vaccination Movement In Mandalika Before MotoGP Event

TNI Monitors Vaccinations in Lombok/Photo: Antara

LOMBOK - TNI (Indonesian Army) ranks from Kodim 1620/Lombok Tengah, West Nusa Tenggara continues to encourage the massive "Vaccination Assault" movement to support the prevention of COVID-19 transmission by increasing the immunity of community groups through vaccination activities ahead of the MotoGP event.

"This vaccination attack activity is to support the Mandalika Circuit MotoGP event on March 18-20", said Military District Commander 1620/Central Lombok, Lt. Col. (Inf) I Putu Tangkas Wiratawan, in Praya on Friday, January 28.

Indonesia is hosting the second series of the 2022 MotoGP racing season. In addition, the Mandalika Circuit is also one of the tracks used in the pre-season test session in February 2022.

"Towards the international event, the people of Central Lombok must have achieved 100 percent herd immunity for the first dose, and a minimum of 80 percent for the second dose. As for dose 3 (Booster), we will continue to try to at least achieve the national target that has been determined", he said, quoting Antara.

Therefore, his party together with the National Police continues to increase vaccination attacks by targeting children aged 6-11 years, the elderly, and "boosters" for the TNI, National Police, Persit, and the general public.

"Regarding the vaccine booster, officers have prepared several types of vaccines that have received EUA from BPOM, namely CoronaVac, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Sinovac", he said.

He added that the enthusiasm of the community to participate in vaccination activities was very high. The implementation of vaccination is fully supported by vaccinators from the TNI and health workers with a vaccination target of 1000 doses today.

"This joint vaccination effort is part of our effort to fight and break the chain of transmission of COVID-19 in Central Lombok Regency", he said.

The vaccination attack program, he said, was still very effective in protecting oneself from exposure to COVID-19. Therefore, I hope that the vaccination target can be achieved in the next three months.

"The vaccination target is expected to be achieved before the Mandalika MotoGP event", he concluded.