Bobby Nasution Encouraged To Realize 'Gifts' For Medan Residents Who Get Booster Vaccines

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MEDAN - Member of Commission II of the Medan City DPRD, Tengku Edriansyah Rendy, encouraged the city government to implement a plan to provide prizes for residents who participated in booster doses of COVID-19 vaccination in the local area.

"The plan of the Mayor of Medan to give gifts to the community is a booster vaccination (boosting dose) is a good effort. Of course we support it and we encourage it to be carried out immediately," he said as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 19.

This, he continued, was an effort by the Medan City Government to increase the interest of residents in participating in vaccinations as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased to 156 cases on Monday (18/7), or an increase of 14 new cases on Sunday (17/7).

Because until now, the achievement of booster dose vaccination is still low, both at the local and national levels, so the government has made various efforts to get people to take part in the third vaccination.

Data from the Medan City Health Office as of June 3, 2022 stated that the third dose of vaccination was only 436,670 people or 17.93 percent, the second dose was 1,699,801 people or 69.80 percent and the first dose was 1,915,017 people or 78.64 percent.

"So it is only natural that the central government gives suggestions for local governments to innovate, such as giving gifts to people who want to be vaccinated with the third dose," said Rendy.

The Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian last weekend asked regional heads, both regents and mayors to take the initiative to give gifts to residents who participated in the third dose of vaccination.

Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution admitted that the Medan City Government would follow the advice of the Minister of Home Affairs Tito in increasing the public's interest in following the booster dose vaccination.

"We, the local government will provide stimuli so that people want the third dose of vaccine. We will discuss this later, hopefully in one or two days we can provide a policy," he said.