Pursuing Booster Vaccination Target, DKI Provincial Government Collaborates With TNI-Polri

Anies Baswedan/Photo: Instagram @Aniesbaswedan

JAKARTA - The Provincial Government (Pemprov) of DKI Jakarta is collaborating with the Regional Military Command Jaya and Polda Metro Jaya to provide vaccination services to achieve vaccination achievements, including the third dose (booster) of COVID-19. continue to pursue vaccination achievements, especially for 'booster' and child vaccines," said DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan via Instagram account @aniesbaswedan in Jakarta, Wednesday, February 9. health facilities to implement a "booster".

Ease of registration for COVID-19 vaccination, he continued, can also be done through the Jakarta Kini (JaKi) application or come directly to health facilities. million or 120.5 percent of the target of 10.08 million residents in Jakarta. Of that number, the composition of residents with a DKI Jakarta ID card reached 8.63 million or 71 percent and non-KTP DKI Jakarta reached 29 percent. While the second dose reached 10.03 million or 99.5 percent with a composition of 73 percent of DKI Jakarta ID cards and 27 percent of non-KTP DKI Jakarta residents. Meanwhile, the realization of the third dose (booster) vaccination as of Tuesday (8/3) reached 836,846 people. Anies revealed that the COVID-19 vaccination has an important role because it forms group immunity from the danger of disease transmission from the SARS CoV-2 virus, including its variants. The former Minister of Education and Culture noted the number of positive COVID-19 patients who died at this time around 30 people per day. When compared to the peak of the second wave, he continued, COVID-19 positive death cases reached 200 people in a day. The lower death rate, said Anies, could be due to several factors, including the nature of the Omicron variant which does not as ferocious as the Delta variant, but also the vaccination and immunity factors of Jakarta residents, which are already much higher than last year. "Most of the deaths are still dominated by residents who have not received the full dose of vaccination," he said. prevented even though the number of deaths of COVID-19 patients was lower. "If the number of cases doubles, the absolute number of deaths can still be as high as the second wave. This is what we have to prevent together," said Anies.