Target Of 1 Million People To Be Vaccinated Per Day Cannot Be Achieved, COVID-19 Task Force: Health Facilities Are Limited

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JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo is targeting the number of people who receive the COVID-19 vaccination to reach one million people in one day. However, until now this target has not been achieved.

Per day, the average number of people who receive the first dose of vaccine has never reached 250 thousand. Since it was implemented on January 13 until now, only 3.337.026 people have received the first dose of vaccine and 1.197.772 second dose.

The spokesperson for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, explained the reason why the coronavirus vaccination has not yet reached the target. He said that the health facilities are still limited.

"So far, the obstacles faced by the government include the limited number of health facilities", Wiku said in the Presidential Secretariat YouTube broadcast, Tuesday, March 9.

Another factor, said Wiku, is the incomplete data information system needed for vaccination and the communication flow needed by the community.

"The government continues to evaluate the implementation of vaccination as a meaningful input to improve the program going forward", he continued.

As previously reported, Jokowi wanted Indonesia to immediately have herd immunity among the community. This is because accelerating vaccination is one of the keys to controlling the rate of transmission of COVID-19.

Therefore, Jokowi is targeting one million people to be vaccinated in one day. "The vaccination target for the January to June period is 40 million people and we are targeting 1 million people to be vaccinated every day so that the vaccination can be completed on time according to the target we have given", said Jokowi.

Jokowi said that this vaccination was not only in Jakarta but must be rolled out to all provinces. Everyone should start a massive vaccination process. Jokowi then instructed the local government to accelerate the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination in their region.

"I have reminded and asked local governments to be faster, to be even more active in implementing vaccinations in the regions of each country", said Jokowi.