Booster Tail Becomes A Requirement For Homecoming, OKU Regency Residents Are Crowded Wanting Vaccination

Illustration of a COVID-19 booster vaccination. (Between)

SULSEL - Lebaran 2022 travelers must have received an injection of a booster or booster dose of COVID-19. In the aftermath of the regulation, public interest in Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, South Sumatra, for the booster vaccine has increased.

According to Fitri, one of the residents of Baturaja, Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU), Thursday, admitted that he was willing to queue at the Tanjung Baru Health Center since morning to receive the third dose of vaccine.

According to him, this booster vaccine is very important in addition to being able to ward off COVID-19, as well as a condition for traveling back and forth for Eid later.

Fitri admitted that initially she did not want to continue the last stage of the vaccination process because she thought that giving the second dose of vaccine was enough to ward off COVID-19.

"Since it is a requirement for going home, like it or not, a booster vaccine must be given so that Eid can be gathered with family in Palembang City," he said.

Head of UPTD Tanjung Baru Health Center, Riza Ariani admitted that the demand for a second dose of vaccine and booster is currently increasing in line with central government regulations that make it a condition for going home for Idul Fitri this year.

"Residents who initially did not want to be vaccinated, especially boosters, are now starting to flock to vaccination services to get the third dose of injection," he said.

He noted, on average during Ramadan every day his party distributes as many as 200 doses of vaccine starting from the first, second to booster doses to the people in the area.

"Usually around 50-60 people per day. The most currently demand is the third dose, but unfortunately the stock of vaccines in our health centers is running low," he explained.

In fact, he admitted that some people who had registered for the booster vaccine could not be served because the vaccine stock was not sufficient, it was not even available at the OKU Health Office.

"We have reported this to the OKU Health Office and now we have submitted a proposal for an additional vaccine dose to the South Sumatra Provincial Government," he concluded.