SEMARANG - Mayor of Semarang, Central Java, Hendrar Prihadi, said there were still around 600,000 residents of the area waiting to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
"Based on the report from the health office, the vaccination achievement has reached around 520,000 people from the target of 1.1 million people to achieve herd immunity", the mayor said in a press release in Semarang, reported Antara, Tuesday, July 13.
To achieve this target, he said, the Semarang City Government cooperated with various parties to accelerate the implementation of vaccination.
Of the eight vaccination centers and 37 places of regular vaccination services at the Puskesmas, he continued, the daily capacity for vaccination reached 15 thousand people per day.
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He explained that with such a large capacity, the target to complete the vaccination for 600 thousand Semarang residents would take about 1.5 months. "With a record, the vaccine is always available", he said.
Vaccination, he said, was one of the efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to implementing strict health protocols.
Meanwhile, based on data from the https://siagacorona.semarangkota.go.id page as of 17.00 WIB, the number of patients who were confirmed positive for active COVID-19 reached 2,213 people.
The number of patients who died from being positive for COVID-19 reached 4,920 people, of which 1,562 people were residents outside Semarang.
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