Anies Baswedan: Of The 4.2 Million Who Have Been Vaccinated, 2.3 Percent Are Infected With COVID-19 With Mild Symptoms

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that of the 4.2 million DKI Jakarta residents who had received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, only a few were infected. According to Anies, vaccines greatly reduce the risk of severity and death from COVID-19.

"Only 2.3 percent remain infected. The number is very small. And most of those infected, out of the 2.3 percent, they are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms," he said, quoted from the DKI Jakarta Government's YouTube account, Saturday, 31 July.

Not only the number who were exposed, of the 4.2 million residents who had received the vaccine injection, only 0.013 percent were declared dead after being exposed to COVID-19.

"Or about 13 cases per 100,000 population. That's what died. If we look, compared to those who have not been vaccinated, those who have been vaccinated for their case fatality rate or case fatality rate has decreased to less than a third compared to those who have not been vaccinated," he said.

However, the former Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia also asked his citizens not to view the death rate as merely a statistical value. Because, behind every death, there are family, friends and colleagues who have lost loved ones. In fact, people who are relied on to support family life.

"Every death is sorrow and every death is actually God's destiny that cannot be brought forward, cannot be reversed," he said.

Therefore, Anies invited his citizens to vaccinate as part of the effort to fight COVID-19 and protect those closest to him.

"We have to make efforts. What are we trying to do? Reducing risks, increasing the potential for personal safety, family safety, and the safety of our environment by vaccinating," he said.

For your information, based on data from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government on Saturday, July 31, a vaccination program for dose 1 has been carried out for 7,507,340 people. As for dose 2 as many as 2,667,299 people and dose 3 specifically for health workers as many as 3,547 people.

From the first 7.5 million doses of vaccinations carried out in Jakarta, around 4.5 million more were residents with Jakarta ID cards. The rest, about 3 million are residents with non-DKI Jakarta ID cards. Of that number, there are about 1.3 million residents with West Java ID cards and around 500 thousand people with Banten ID cards who are also vaccinated in Jakarta.