Governor Of Central Sulawesi Immediately Completes Vaccination For Elderly And Children

Governor of Central Sulawesi Rusdy Mastura /Photo: Antara

MOROWALI - Central Sulawesi Governor Rusdy Mastura urged district and city governments in his region to immediately complete the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination for school children and the elderly (elderly). North and Poso. We came here to encourage increased vaccination for school children and the elderly," he said while monitoring the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination in Morowali Regency, Wednesday, February 9. He added. The head of the Central Sulawesi Regional Police Inspector General Pol Rudy Sufahriadi said that the police supported the local government's efforts to accelerate the completion of the COVID-19 vaccination, including the implementation of vaccinations for the target group of children and the elderly.

"We, TNI and Polri, are working together to accelerate vaccination coverage and we are also helping to educate the public so as not to be affected by hoax news about vaccines," he said. percent and 25.7 percent of the 196,628 elderly citizens who were targeted for vaccination in Central Sulawesi Province. Meanwhile in the group of children, according to data from the Central Sulawesi Provincial Health Office, until Monday (7/2) the COVID-19 vaccination had only been carried out on around 22 percent of the 316,610 targets. "Our target is to finish in February 2022 because we will enter the vaccine for measles and rubella," said the Head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Central Sulawesi Health Service, Jumriani Yunus. the other area is December 2021. All districts are competing to accelerate this child vaccination, including for the elderly a too," he added. According to data from the Ministry of Health on Wednesday, the target for COVID-19 vaccination in Central Sulawesi Province is a total of 2,135,907 people, with details of residents who have received the first dose of vaccination as many as 1,659,015 (77.7 percent), residents who have received the first dose of vaccination. 982,881 (46.02 percent) have received the second dose of vaccination, and 24,472 (1.14 percent) have received the third dose of vaccination.