Professor Wiku Is Still Positive For COVID-19 After Being Injected With Two Doses Of Vaccine: Vaccines Don't Completely Protect The Body

COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito (Photo: BNPB dock)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) Wiku Adisasmito said those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can still be infected. This has also been proven in him who has now tested positive for COVID-19.

"I have received the complete vaccine twice and currently tested positive for COVID-19", Wiku said in a written statement to reporters quoted on Wednesday, June 23.

According to him, this is because the transmission of COVID-19 is still high in the community and the immunity of individuals from those who have been vaccinated is not enough to reduce the spread of the virus.

"This shows that transmission still exists and vaccines do not fully protect themselves from the transmission, individual immunity is not sufficient to reduce transmission, and community immunity is needed to overcome this", said Wiku.

So, to make it happen, the government continues to meet the needs of vaccines. One of them is by receiving the arrival of bulk or vaccine raw materials from Sinovac on Sunday, June 20, as many as 10 million doses.

With the introduction of the vaccine and public awareness to accept it, it is hoped that herd immunity in Indonesia can be achieved soon. However, the public is also still required to be disciplined in carrying out health protocols.

"The arrival of this vaccine is an effort by the government to accelerate the achievement of herd immunity so that it is hoped that the community can participate in the vaccination program and also remain disciplined in complying with health protocols so as to minimize transmission that can occur", he explained

Previously, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) encouraged the acceleration of the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations. He even targets this month's vaccination can be given to 700 thousand people per day.

"We hope that this month, in June, the target for vaccinations per day of 700 thousand (dose, ed) can really be achieved. So that in July we have entered the target of vaccination per day of 1 million (doses, ed)", said Jokowi while monitoring the administration of vaccinations at University of Indonesia Hospital (RSUI) Depok which was broadcasted at the Presidential Secretariat's channel, Wednesday, June 9.

Meanwhile, based on data from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) as of Tuesday, June 22 yesterday, 23.789.884 people had received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 12.514.917 the second dose of vaccination. Meanwhile, the total target of vaccination stages 1 and 2 reached 40.349.049 people.