From Borobudur Area, National Police Chief Opens Vaccination Simultaneously Police: More Than 1.1 Million Doses Of Vaccine Have Been Prepared

National Police Chief General of Police Listyo Sigit Prabowo

JAKARTA - The National Police's simultaneous COVID-19 vaccination in a number of areas targets the distribution of 1,114,750 doses of vaccine. This includes the booster vaccine.

"A number of doses of the vaccine, 834 thousand for doses 1 and 2, and 280 thousand for the third dose," said National Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo after reviewing the Simultaneous Vaccination of the Police at the Borobudur Ship Museum, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Friday, February 18. Between.

According to him, the vaccination activity was chosen at the Borobudur Ship Museum because the Borobudur area is a tourist destination with high interaction. Therefore, his party encourages the acceleration of vaccination that can really be carried out properly.

"This is done to deal with the new variant of Omicron which is currently increasing and indeed in the Central Java region there is also an increase," he said.

He mentioned that from last week's case, which was around 2,000 daily cases, on February 17, 2022, it had reached 4,000 daily cases.

"This is a concern for all of us and is in accordance with the President's directive that we must accelerate vaccination, which of course is followed by enforcement and discipline in the application of health protocols," he said.

He said that the implementation of vaccination in Central Java today is with a minimum target of 35,000 and is expected to reach 38,000 doses with priority for the elderly and children who are also priorities so they need to be increased.

"The death rate is indeed the highest on average in the elderly group. Therefore, we ask for this to be encouraged, of course with strategies, whether it's 'mobile' or 'door to door' if residents can't come to the outlets existing vaccinations," he said