Although Limping, Garut COVID-19 Task Force Accelerates Vaccination Ahead Of Ramadan

Officers carry out a COVID-19 vaccination in Garut Regency, West Java. (AMONG)

GARUT - The Garut COVID-19 Task Force continues to tighten health protocols and accelerate vaccination for the people of Garut Regency, West Java ahead of Ramadan. The goal is to form group immunity.

"Keep tightening health protocols and speeding up vaccinations for doses 1, 2 and 3," said Public Relations of the Garut COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Yeni Yunita in Garut, Antara, Wednesday, March 23.

He said that during Ramadan, cases of transmission and active positive COVID-19 patients in Garut had shown a decline in the past few days.

Even so, he said, prevention efforts and health protocols must still be carried out by all levels of society so that cases do not rise again. "The development of COVID-19 cases to this day continues to decline based on reports from the Task Force team in the field," he said.

Regional Secretary of the Garut Regency Government, Nurdin Yana, added that the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination targeting children aged 6 years to the elderly continues to be encouraged to prevent and break the chain of transmission of the COVID-19 outbreak.

"God willing, while we are limping, we carry out community vaccination movements, this is what we do from the age of 6-11 (years), and we have done this from 12 to above," he said.

He added that the status of Garut Regency was back at level 2 with the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) so that some community activity rules were relaxed.

"We can open community activities according to the instructions of the Minister of Home Affairs, so that's actually the point," said Nurdin.

The development of positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Garut since the pandemic emergency reached 30,541 cases, consisting of 417 cases of self-isolation, 65 cases of isolation in hospitals, then 28,809 cases were declared cured, and 1,250 cases died.