Booster Vaccination Target In Indonesia Only Reached 22.73 Percent

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccination. (PIXABAY)

JAKARTA - Indonesian people who have received booster vaccine injections or booster doses have reached 47.5 million people. This means, only 22.73 percent of the total target has received three vaccine injections.

Based on data from the COVID-19 Task Force received in Jakarta as of Saturday, June 11, at 12.00 WIB, the number of residents who have received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine has reached 47,545,860 people.

Meanwhile, the government is targeting a booster vaccine to be given to more than 208 million people, as reported by Antara.

Meanwhile, the population who received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine increased by 33,136 people to a total of 168,030,935 people or 80.68 percent.

While the recipients of the first dose increased by 25,369 people, bringing the total number of the first dose to 200,818,541 people or the equivalent of 96.42 percent.

Previously, the Indonesian Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, in the Kick Off agenda for the Integration of Primary Health Services in Jakarta, Friday, June 10, encouraged the public to immediately access the COVID-19 vaccine following the findings of four cases of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants in Bali Province on Friday. May 2022.

"Indeed, currently Variants under Monitoring (VuM) such as Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 have been released. This has triggered an increase in cases in Europe, America and Asia. It was found in Indonesia yesterday in Bali, there were four people affected," he said. .

The new Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants are the cause of the increase in COVID-19 cases in several countries around the world.

The report from the Global Initiative on Sharing ALL Influenza Data (GISAID) contains reports of 6,903 BA.4 subvariance sequences from 58 countries. The five countries with the most sequences were South Africa, the United States, Britain, Denmark and Israel.

Meanwhile, the BA.5 subvariant has 8,687 sequences from 63 countries. The five countries with the most BA.5 squencing were the United States, Portugal, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

From the report, it was stated that the transmission of BA.4 and BA.5 had the possibility of spreading faster than the previous omicron. However, the severity is no indication of more severe pain.