Tangerang Mayor Admits The Difficulty Of Booster Vaccinations In Tangerang City, Arief: Rules Are Not Formed To Hurt People

Tangerang Mayor Arief R Wismansyah/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - The Tangerang City Government (Pemkot) will optimize COVID-19 tracing activities in its area. This was done to determine the number of victims who were exposed. So that they can prevent the spread of the virus.

For information, the central government has officially increased the status of the Enforcement of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) level 3 for Jabodetabek.

"We are asked to speed up vaccination. (For tracing) it is still being optimized, earlier it was an assessment of the Ministry of Health, we immediately pursued this today," said Tangerang Mayor Arief R Wismansyah to reporters at the City Government Center, Monday, February 7.

Arief admitted that the 3rd dose of vaccination in Tangerang City is still difficult. Therefore, Arif asked the people of Tangerang City to immediately vaccinate against COVID-19.

"For the first dose, it has reached 105, the second dose has reached 74 percent. Now, what's difficult is dose 3. To the public, to reduce the risk of exposure and death, let's work together to succeed in the city government's vaccination program,” he said.

Regarding the restrictions on operating hours for shopping centers, Arief said it was limited to 21.00 WIB. However, he hopes that the public will respond wisely to the regulation.

According to him, the regulation was not formed to make people miserable, but to save the community.

"So hopefully it can be handled wisely, so that this pandemic can be passed, help the government in carrying out this vaccination activity to reduce the death rate and don't let them be severely exposed," he said.