Areas Where Mass Vaccination Holds Is Requested Consider Availability Of Vaccinators

Vaccination for COVID-19 (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Wiku Adisasmito reminded regions that will carry out mass COVID-19 vaccinations to consider the capacity of the vaccinators or personnel who inject the vaccine.

"If other regions want to carry out mass vaccinations, of course they must consider the availability of vaccinators," Wiku said in a YouTube broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat, Thursday, February 4.

Wiku said, by paying attention to the availability of vaccinators, the mass vaccination program could run effectively.

"The implementation of the mass vaccination program can be one way to encourage health workers to participate in this vaccination program," he said.

This afternoon, President Joko Widodo reviewed the implementation of mass vaccinations for human resources in the health sector. The mass vaccination was held at Istora Gelora Bung Karno.

Jokowi said that the mass vaccination was aimed at accelerating the implementation of vaccinations for health workers so that the government could immediately begin the implementation of vaccinations for the next stage.

"Even though the community health centers and hospitals in the regions have started vaccination, we want to accelerate the vaccination process so that at Istora Gelora Bung Karno mass vaccinations for health workers began," said Jokowi.

To date, 700,266 health workers have received a dose of Covid-19 vaccine. This number reaches approximately 45 percent of the target of 1.5 million health workers.

Meanwhile, Plt. The Health Ministry's Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P), Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, explained that as many as five thousand health workers were targeted to be able to participate in the mass vaccination activity in Istora.

Similar mass vaccination activities have previously been carried out in a number of other areas such as Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Bandung.

Maxi said, the implementation of this mass vaccination was at the same time preparation for vaccinating with a larger number of participants in the next stage which is expected to be completed by the end of April 2021.

"This is at the same time our training to carry out mass vaccinations like this to anticipate the next stage of vaccination for 18 million public service (personnel) so that we get used to it," he said.