Until The End Of January, Only 493,133 Health Workers Had Been Vaccinated

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JAKARTA - As many as 493,133 health workers in 92 districts / cities spread across 34 provinces in Indonesia have been vaccinated from the target of 1,531,072 people in the first phase of vaccination.

According to data from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) quoted in Jakarta, as of Sunday, January 31, currently 493,133 health workers have been injected with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine with 22,548 of whom have also received the second dose of vaccine.

Of the 1,531,072 health human resources (HRK) targeted to receive vaccines, 1,500,721 of them have re-registered to carry out the vaccination process.

The government is targeting to administer COVID-19 vaccination against 181,554,465 Indonesians or around 70 percent of the total population. This was done to achieve herd immunity against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Health workers are the first target of the vaccination process.

After the first phase of the vaccination program for health workers, then the second stage of vaccination will be given to public officials, such as the TNI-Polri, and workers who work in public places who meet many people and groups of elderly people.

The government is targeting to vaccinate 17.4 million public officials and 21.5 million elderly people in the second phase which will start from February 2021 to April 2021. Both groups are vaccinated because they are considered to be a group at high risk of contracting the corona virus.

Furthermore, the second batch of vaccination programs will be carried out in the period April 2021 to March 2022, namely in the third stage for 63.9 million vulnerable people living in areas with high risk of transmission, as well as 77.4 million other people who will be vaccinated in the last stage. .