Many Bogor Residents Are Afraid Of Getting Vaccinated With COVID-19

JAKARTA - Bogor Regent Ade Yasin admitted that he needed more time to socialize the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine to his citizens. This is because many citizens are afraid of being vaccinated.

"People are afraid, there are no examples of vaccine recipients. People also doubt the vaccines that will be tested. Maybe there is a need for more massive socialization. Because when we asked for vaccines, people were hesitant and not enthusiastic about being vaccinated, even though it was free," he said in Cibinong. , Bogor Regency, West Java, reported by Antara, Monday, November 2.

In fact, according to him, there are seven areas in Bogor Regency that are priority recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine with a quota of 1,112,189 people. The seven areas are sub-districts of the red zone of transmission of COVID-19.

Ade Yasin admitted that he would work around this by aggressively conducting socialization and opening up registration for vaccine volunteers to reduce public doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine promised by the central government to be available in November 2020.

"I have also asked the COVID-19 Task Force to open this registration online, who is interested in being vaccinated, both in terms of profession and productive age," said the Head of the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Task Force.

Even though he has not received further news about the vaccine administration, Ade continues to collect data on recipients according to the quota given by the West Java Provincial Government, which is 1.2 million vaccines for Bogor Regency.

He divided the quota into 11 categories of vaccine recipients, namely 16,452 health workers, 641 Kodim 0621 people, 1,800 Bogor Police, 14,070 Islamic boarding schools, 1,200 teachers, 9,100 diniyah teachers, 20,046 Bogor Regency employees, 4,160 village officials. , neighborhood units of 16,256 people, community of 4,086 people, and people of productive age in seven red zone sub-districts 1,112,189 people.

Ade Yasin said that Bogor Regency received the largest share of the COVID-19 vaccine from other regions at the district or city level, namely as many as 1.2 million vaccines.

"In Bogor Regency, it is the most (vaccines), we have the largest population," he said.

This year, the population of Bogor Regency has exceeded 6 million. According to Ade Yasin, the vaccine ration for COVID-19 in each region is 20 percent of the population, so it is estimated that the vaccine ration for Bogor Regency is 1.2 million.

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