Jakarta's Vaccination Almost 100 Percent, Metro Police Speeds Up The Rest

Kasatgas Vaccination Merdeka Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Herukoco/ Screenshot

JAKARTA - Metro Jaya Police targets to inject vaccines for around three hundred thousand people of DKI Jakarta until August 17. So, on Indonesia's independence day, all people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

"The remaining vaccination coverage that must be met by Jakarta is 311,122, which we will continue to pursue so that we can achieve the target of the Ministry of Health", said Head of the Free Vaccination Task Force of Metro Jaya Police, Kombes Herukoco to reporters, Wednesday, August 11.

Based on data as of August 10, about 8.6 million people have been vaccinated out of a total of 8.9 million Jakarta residents. Thus, the percentage of vaccination reached 96.5 percent.

"It reached 8,630,089 people or 96.5 percent of the target set by the Ministry of Health, namely 8,941,211 people", said Herukoco.

Meanwhile, specifically for independent vaccination, continued Herukoco, 621,050 people have been vaccinated for the first dose from August 1 to 10. Then, the second dose of vaccination has been carried out on 90,931 people.

"Independence vaccination has vaccinated 621,050 doses, so this is an achievement of 55.30 percent of the total vaccination activities in Jakarta, dose 1, dose 2 Metro Jaya Police vaccinated 90,931 or 9.6 percent this is the achievement of Metro Jaya Police related to independent vaccination", he said.

On the other hand, independent vaccination was also carried out in several buffer areas of DKI Jakarta. For 10 days, a total of 310,072 had been vaccinated both the first and second doses.

"In the buffer area, for the Bekasi City, Bekasi Regency, Depok, South Tangerang, and South Tangerang City areas during August 1-10, the buffer area reached 310,072 people with details of dose 1 (ie) 252,162 doses and dose 2 (ie) 57,910 doses", said Herukoco.