COVID-19 Cases Translucent 1.7 Million, Government Asked To Speed Up Vaccinations

Vaccine illustration. (Unspalsh / Steven Cornfield)

JAKARTA - COVID-19 cases in Indonesia continue to increase. The latest data from the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Handling Task Force, until Friday, May 7, that confirmed positive for COVID-19 in the country had reached 1.7 million cases.

6,327 new cases were reported. Meanwhile, the number of patients recovered was 5,891. The total number of patients recovering from COVID-19 reached 1,558,423 patients.

Yesterday, 167 patients died, so a total of 46,663 patients died due to COVID-19 in Indonesia. Responding to that, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives for the Korkesra Division Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar asked the government to speed up vaccination.

"I think 1.7 million is not a small number. Moreover, the death toll due to corona has reached 46,663 people. Of course, this is a serious problem so I ask the public to really not be careless, to adhere to health protocols", said Muhaimin in a statement received on Saturday, May 8.

The general chairman of the PKB asked the community to comply with Government regulations regarding the prohibition of going home, to prevent even worse conditions.

"Don't let what happened in India, which is called the second wave of the COVID-19 tsunami, also happen in this country", he said.

The House of Representatives for COVID-19 Disaster Management Supervisory Team also welcomed the government's plan to carry out cooperation vaccinations for private workers after Eid, or be precise on May 17, 2021. It is known that 8.6 million workers have registered as recipients of the cooperation vaccine.

"We at the House of Representatives encourage the Ministry of Health and the COVID-19 Task Force to handle COVID-19 to ask companies to start disseminating information to their employees about the cooperation mechanism so that workers are not confused or misinformed", he said.

Muhaimin, who is familiarly called Gus AMI, also asked the government to ensure that no company charges workers for the vaccine because the government guarantees that all people can access the COVID-19 vaccine for free without exception.

"The Ministry of Health must verify and validate the data on vaccine recipients so that there is no duplicate data or workers who have received the vaccine are included in the cooperation list of vaccine recipients", he said.

Gus AMI assessed that the government should ask companies to ensure that all workers who are registered as vaccine recipients participate in the cooperation vaccination program.

"So that the government's efforts to accelerate the formation of herd immunity can be realized immediately", he said.