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JAKARTA - The population of Indonesia that has undergone the second vaccination has reached 142,517,246 (142.52 million) after 710,916 people received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, February 24, according to data from the COVID-19 Task Force.

Data received in Jakarta, Thursday, also showed that 217,607 people received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Thus 190,310,509 residents in the country have completed the first stage of vaccination.

Recipients of the third dose as a booster or booster have now reached 9,236,089 people, an increase of 261,132 people compared to Wednesday, February 23.

The government itself is targeting 208,265,720 citizens to get a complete vaccination, or two doses, in order to get communal immunity (herd immunity) against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

COVID-19 cases in the country also experienced the addition of 57,426 new cases, accompanied by reports of 42,518 recovered patients and 317 deaths due to COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Vaccination of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Siti Nadia Tarmizi stated that all countries needed to wait for official directions from the World Health Organization (WHO) to be able to revoke the pandemic status in their respective regions.

"The WHO has declared a global pandemic and we are part of the global community. However, we cannot as a global community declare that Indonesia is out of the pandemic," Nadia said in a virtual event reported by Antara.

Regarding when Indonesia entered the endemic, she said that it could not be decided unilaterally and the government still needed to monitor the pandemic situation further. Including paying attention to various indicators in handling COVID-19.


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