Add 319 Thousand People, A Total Of 58.5 Million Indonesians Are Injected With Booster Vaccines

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JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) reports that a total of 58,537,731 people have received booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine after an increase of 319,300 people.

Reported by ANTARA, Saturday, August 13, the addition also occurred in the second (complete) dose. A total of 170,485,151 people have received it, after an increase of 52,505 from the previous day.

Then the recipients of the first dose also increased by 57,419 people. Thus, the total number of recipients has reached 202,949,315 people.

The Task Force said 208,265,720 Indonesian citizens were targeted to be recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine, which can form antibodies and minimize transmission of the virus.

Spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Mohammad Syahril, said that the antibodies that people already have do not mean that they protect themselves from transmission.

Prevention by implementing health protocols (prokes) in the form of wearing masks, washing hands, keeping a distance, including getting the COVID-19 vaccine, still has to be done.

The Ministry of Health asks those who have not completed the COVID-19 vaccine dose to the booster to immediately go to the nearest health facility so that transmission can be suppressed.

"We have to keep working, and keep in mind that people with increased doses of vaccines have higher antibody levels than residents with fixed doses of vaccines," he said.