Anies And Riza Patria Are Not The First People In DKI To Be Vaccinated, What's Wrong?

Illustration - Vaccines used to vaccinate President Joko Widodo (Photo: Press Bureau of the Presidential Secretariat)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and DKI Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria will not be the first people in DKI to receive the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccination tomorrow, Thursday, January 14.

Head of the DKI Health Service, Widyastuti, explained that Anies and Riza are currently not vaccinated because they have been confirmed positive for COVID-19.

"For Jakarta, because he (Anies and Riza) are survivors of (COVID-19), he is not the target of vaccination at this time," said Widyastuti when contacted, Tuesday, January 13 evening.

This decision is based on the Decree of the Director General of Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health Number 02.02 / 4/1/2021 concerning Technical Guidelines for the Implementation of Vaccinations in the Context of Combating COVID-19.

One of the criteria for people who should not be vaccinated against COVID-19 is that they have been confirmed to have COVID-19.

Furthermore, Widyastuti said DKI Jakarta Province had received 120,040 doses of Sinovac vaccine. Apart from senior officials in DKI, health workers are a priority for vaccination recipients.

Based on compiled data updates from the Ministry of Health and the DKI Health Office, there are 131 thousand health workers in all DKI health facilities.

"Initially there were 119 thousand health workers. However, recently we have recruited a lot of health professionals during the pandemic. So, this number was registered at 131 thousand earlier. The process of updating data collection will continue," said Widyastuti.

Seeing the limited stock of vaccines in the early stages, coupled with the provision of receiving two doses in one person, the DKI Jakarta Health Office will vaccinate half of the health workers in DKI on January 15.

"Referring to the figure of 120,040 doses and it must be safe for 2 times, it means that we first prepare 60 thousand health workers who we will give the injection at this early stage. In the future, we plan to give the next vaccine in February," he explained.