JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Health Office has injected a second dose of monkeypox into 411 people. Previously, 495 people had received the first dose of vaccination.
"411 people have finished being vaccinated with 2 doses of Mpox," said Head of the Epidemiological Surveillance and Immunization Section of the DKI Jakarta Health Service (Diskes) Ngabila Salama in his statement, Sunday, November 3.
The second dose was given after four weeks (28 days) from the first dose. The first dose of monkeypox vaccination was given from October 23 to November 3, 2023.
The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has also provided 4.500 doses of the Mpox vaccine and 1.008 bottles of antiviral tecovirimat as an effort to treat patients.
Based on data as of December 1, 2023, it was recorded that 45 people had been confirmed positive for monkeypox in Jakarta. Then, 26 of them have been isolated or declared cured.
All cases of monkeypox in Jakarta are male aged 25-50 years with mild symptoms, most of which are sexually assaulted.
Meanwhile, 16 patients are still in isolation in hospital, as well as 150 people with negative PCR test results.
"Continue to monitor the trend of cases until the first week of December or 21 days of the risk of transmission of celebration events or entertainment that will be carried out between October 31 and November 15," explained Ngabila.
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