148.02 Million Indonesians Have Been Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 As Of March 7, 2022

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccination (Antaranews)

JAKARTA - A total of 148.02 Indonesian citizens have received a complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, March 7, at 12.00 WIB. The data is based on the number of people who have received an injection of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine today as many as 163,040 people. Meanwhile, the number of recipients of the first dose of vaccine recorded today was 65,273 people. With this addition, the number of recipients of the first dose of vaccination has now become 192,068,763 people. The total vaccination for the third dose today increased by 82,013 people to 12,487,116 people. The government plans to vaccinate as many as 208,265,720 million people. Thus, it is recorded that the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was given to 92.22 percent of the total 208,265,720 residents who were targeted for COVID-19 vaccination. covering 71.07 percent of the total target.

Separately, Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono appealed to the public not to delay vaccinating doses of one, two and booster because they chose the vaccine. According to him, all vaccines provided by the government are the best

"Public communication continues to be carried out so that people do not choose vaccines, and the best vaccine is the vaccine that we can get the fastest," said Dante during a press conference monitored via the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, March 7.

Dante also said the Ministry of Health had revised the booster vaccination policy. Initially, the booster vaccine was given 6 months after the second vaccination, but now it has been revised three months after the second vaccination.

"It is hoped that herd immunity will occur in the community," he said.