Ganjar Pranowo Asks For Acceleration Of Vaccination In 5 Regencies

Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

SEMARANG - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo asked to accelerate the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination in five districts whose achievements so far are still low.

"Brebes, Cilacap, Banjarnegara, Magelang, Purbalingga, please speed up the vaccine. Anyway, as soon as you can finish it the next day," he said while chairing the Coordination Meeting for the Handling of COVID-19 at the Central Java Governor's office in Semarang, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, September 21.

Based on the data received by Ganjar, vaccination coverage in several areas is still lacking, such as in Cilacap Regency, namely the first dose of vaccination was only 20.19 percent and the second dose of 11.50 percent, Brebes Regency where the first dose of vaccine covered 20.50 percent and the second dose of vaccination. 9.26 percent.

In addition to accelerating vaccination, Ganjar also reminded local governments to be disciplined in entering data in reporting applications.

"It's your job to 'panjenengan' (you) to spend, so that we who ask the Ministry of Health are also 'confident' (confident) and it turns out that we can actually spend it," he said.

The coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in Central Java is currently 34.92 percent or about 10 million people for the first dose.

For the second dose, the vaccine coverage reached 18.07 percent or about 5.1 million people, while the third dose for health workers reached 70.82 percent or around 116,000 health workers.