JAKARTA - The government has begun implementing phase two of the COVID-19 vaccination for public service officials, Wednesday, February 17. This vaccination is carried out in Block A Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta.
Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria said that the vaccination targets were as many as 10 thousand traders from 153 markets in DKI Jakarta.
"Vaccination starts in Tanah Abang and will be continued with others. According to the president director of Pasar Jaya, data has been prepared for at least 10,000 market traders from 153 markets in DKI Jakarta", said Riza on Tuesday, February 16 evening.
Separately, the Director-General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Maxi Rein Rondonuwu said that vaccination of market traders was carried out in bulk in one location.
Vaccination for market traders will last for 6 days targeting around 55 thousand market traders.
"The implementation of the second phase of vaccination will begin with market traders who are a pilot project in DKI Jakarta, namely Tanah Abang Market on Wednesday, February 17. We hope this will be rolled out for all market traders in Jakarta and throughout Indonesia", he said. Maxi.
In the national COVID-19 vaccination program, the government is targeting 181.5 vaccine targets. They are people aged 18 years and over. Vaccine recipients receive twice the injection dose.
In the first stage, the vaccine is intended for 1.5 health workers. As of today, health workers who have received the first dose of vaccination nationally are 76.32 percent, and the second dose is 36.5 percent.
Especially, vaccination in DKI for health workers has reached 89 percent and the second dose has reached 45.1 percent.
Then, in the second stage, COVID-19 vaccination is for the elderly and public service workers. The target is 21.5 million elderly and 16.9 million public workers. This program lasts until May.
They are market traders, educators, religious leaders and counselors, representatives of the people, officials, government, civil servants, TNI-Police, tourism officers, public services, public transportation workers, athletes, and media workers.
Furthermore, vaccination will be carried out for 63.9 million vulnerable people or people living in areas with a high risk of infection. Then, other communities as many as 77.7 million people. This program will be carried out from April 2021 to March 2022.
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