A Little More, All Children In North Sumatra Have Been Injected With The COVID-19 Vaccine

JAKARTA - COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 6-11 years in North Sumatra as of Friday has reached 85.26 percent of the total target of 1,616,233 children in the area. "The first dose has reached 85.26 percent," said the Head of Prevention. and Control of Infectious Diseases (P2PM) of the Health Office of North Sumatra, Dr. Nora Nasution through a written statement received in Medan, Friday, August 12 evening. Meanwhile, those who received the second dose of vaccination had reached 72.44 percent of the target for child vaccination in North Sumatra. Nora said that from 33 districts Only the districts of Samosir, North Tapanuli, Toba and Sibolga that carried out vaccination coverage for the children were vaccinated.

"Meanwhile, the lowest coverage is Medan City with a percentage of 65.71 percent," he said. In percentage terms, around 35.88 percent of North Sumatran residents have been vaccinated with the full dose," he said.

While those who received the second dose of vaccination were 9,538,395 people or around 64.45 percent of the targeted vaccination target. Then, for the first dose of vaccine, 11,147,423 people or 75.32 percent of the total population of vaccine recipients had received.