Geber Second Dose Of Vaccination For Elderly, Garut Regency Government Prepares Cooking Oil Prize

Garut Regent Rudy Gunawan inspects child vaccination activities at Gentra Elementary School, Garut Regency, West Java (ANTARA/HO-)

GARUT - The Government of Garut Regency, West Java has prepared a cooking oil prize to encourage the elderly to be vaccinated against a second dose.

"We will give the elderly the second dose of cooking oil, next week from the COVID-19 Task Force," said Garut Regent Rudy Gunawan after reviewing the implementation of vaccination for children aged 6-11 years at SDN Gentra Masekdas, Garut, Antara, Friday, February 18. .

He said that the regional government together with the TNI and Polri are continuing to move to carry out vaccinations with various targets, ranging from children to the elderly.

Acceleration of vaccination for the second dose in accordance with instructions and directions from President Joko Widodo during a virtual meeting with several regional heads throughout Indonesia.

The President, said the Regent, conveyed two things, namely ordering the ranks of the regional government, the TNI, and the National Police to carry out maximum vaccinations, specifically for doses two and doses three.

"So Mr President, there are only two (messages), one immediately the local government, TNI, Polri carry out vaccinations as much as possible," he said.

He revealed that the second order was that the President asked for three-dose activities to be carried out in places with high interaction, such as markets, supermarkets, and train stations.

"Maybe later we will hold it at the terminal, or if it's Ramayana here, in the market, the point is that the interaction is high," he said.

The Garut Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force reported that vaccination achievement in the area for dose 1 was 86.1 percent, dose 2 was 49.1 percent, and dose 3 only reached 1.2 percent of the total vaccine target of 1,977,713 people.