Anies Baswedan Calls COVID Vaccination In Jakarta Like The European Cup, Needs Cooperation To Score Goals

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo: Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan invites the public to invite people around him to carry out the COVID-19 vaccination program. This must be done in order to boost the rate of vaccine injection.

"It's not just the vaccination action, but moving people to come to the vaccination site is equally important," Anies said in an online discussion, Saturday, July 10.

He said boosting the injection of this vaccine is a collective work for all parties.

"Get involved as a mover (community, ed) to come to the vaccination site because it is equally important," said the former Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud).

"Just like the European Cup. Goals are created if there is a feeder but it is recorded that kick the ball into the goal. Most only want to be the kicker into the goal because that is what is recorded when in fact the ball can only go in if there is a feeder," Anies added.

Anies also admitted that he was surprised why the vaccination tents were not always crowded. Meanwhile, the social assistance distribution tent is always filled with people.

So he hopes that all parties will become feeders of the COVID-19 vaccine. "Providing tents for vaccination is good, providing people for vaccines is good. But being a feeder is much more important, much better at this time," said Anies.

Previously reported, the results of a COVID-19 serology survey conducted by the University of Indonesia Faculty of Public Health Team, the Eikjman Institute, and CDC Indonesia stated that half of DKI Jakarta residents had been exposed to COVID-19.

This serological survey was carried out on a population-based basis with a sampling method, in the period 15-31 March. The survey was conducted in 100 kelurahan in 6 administrative districts/cities covering 4,919 samples.

Based on the survey, almost half of Jakarta's population has been infected with COVID-19 and most are in the 30-49 year age group.

The prevalence of the population who has ever been infected is 44.5 percent with an estimated population of 4.7 million people from Jakarta's total population of 10.6 million people.

Thus, to achieve communal immunity or herd immunity, it is necessary to inject the COVID-19 vaccine against another 50 percent of Jakarta residents who have not been exposed to the virus.