The Number Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injections Per Day Reaches 2.3 Million, Minister Of Health Budi Gunadi: We Are Praised By The United States

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin/PHOTO VIA Ministry of Health

JAKARTA - Health Minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said Indonesia received praise from the United States government for being able to inject 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine per day.

This compliment was conveyed when he and the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan visited Uncle Sam's country some time ago.

"The daily injection is 2.3 million per day. (This figure, ed) is bigger than the United States and our injection was praised when the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment said when we went to America", Budi said in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, October 25.

The former Deputy Minister of SOEs explained that currently, the number of vaccine doses that have been given to the public has reached 182 million.

Where 113 million or 54 percent of the target population of 208 million people have received the first dose of injection and 68 million or 32 percent were given for the second or complete dose.

At this rate, Minister of Health Budi believes that Indonesia will be able to inject 290-300 million doses of vaccine, consisting of 168 million doses for the first vaccine or 80 percent and 123 million doses for the second injection or 59 percent of the target population by the end of the year.

As for the stock of COVID-19 vaccines, there are currently 248 million of which 237 million have been distributed and 182 million have been injected.

"So we still have 55 million in stock in all provinces", concluded the Minister of Health.