Booster Vaccination Recipients In Belitung Reach 15.8 Percent Of Target

Vaccination service in Belitung. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Belitung Regency Health Office of Bangka Belitung Islands Province recorded that 20,126 residents of the 145,010 targets in the area had received booster doses of vaccines.

"The realization of booster dose vaccination in Belitung until Saturday 9 April reached 15.80 percent, the number of people receiving vaccines will still increase", said Head of the Belitung Health Service, Dian Faridah, quoted by Antara, Sunday 10 April.

According to her, the number of residents in the area who had received the first dose of vaccination was 124,174 people or 85.69 percent and recipients of the second dose of vaccine were 113,359 or 78.17 percent.

"We continue to improve the achievement of COVID-19 vaccination in Belitung, so that community groups' immunity is formed against COVID-19 transmission", she said.

She added that the number of children aged six to 11 years in the area who had received the COVID-19 vaccination was 16,925 children from 16,434 targets or 102.99 percent.

"From this number, 15,081 children aged six to 11 years in Belitung have received the second dose of vaccination", she said.

She appealed to people who have not received the COVID-19 vaccination to immediately vaccinate at several available vaccine places and outlets.

"Vaccination is important because it can prevent the transmission of COVID-19 and reduce the risk of death from COVID-19", she said.