Jokowi's Target Achieved, Vaccination In Indonesia Reaches 100 Million Doses

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for vaccination from the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi said that Indonesia had injected 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccination by the end of August 2021. This is in line with President Joko Widodo's target.

"As of yesterday, June 31, 2021, at 9 p.m., we have injected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19", Nadia said in a virtual press conference, Wednesday, September 1.

Nadia said the achievement of 100 million doses was a total combination of the first dose, second dose, and third booster dose for health workers.

In detail, the total vaccination for the first dose was 63.49 million, the total for the second dose was 3.05 million, and the total vaccination for the third dose was 640.532 doses.

"For health workers, the third dose has reached 640 thousand. Then, the first dose and the second process have reached 100 percent", she said.

Then, vaccination for public service workers has exceeded 100 percent in the first dose. Then, vaccinations for the general public have reached 31 million doses, for teenagers as many as 2.6 million doses, and the Gotong-Royong (Mutual Cooperation) vaccination has reached the first 810.000 doses.

"Our homework is the elderly because only 5.3 million or 24.5 percent of the 21.5 million targets to get the first dose", said Nadia.

The government continued, Nadia continued to increase the rate of vaccination injections in August, the average injection rate reached 1 million doses per day. The government targets the rate of vaccination injections to reach 2 million per day.

"Of course we will continue to increase the rate of vaccination in September, in line with the increase in the number of vaccines that we will distribute", said Nadia.

In August, an average of 8 to 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were distributed to regions. To date, there have been 144 million doses of vaccine that have been distributed to local governments.

The Ministry of Health also encourages the achievement of 70 percent of the first dose of vaccination in agglomerated districts/cities. Last August, there was a significant increase and the rate of injection, including its achievements in 9 agglomerated districts/cities.

"We still need focus on attacks and responses, both from the National Armed Forces (TNI), National Police (Polri), other ministries and institutions, as well as private parties, community organizations, religious organizations in regencies and cities that are still red with the achievement of the first dose and the rate of injection is still low", he concluded.