Viral Video Elementary School Boy Is Resistant To Injections, Medical Head Of Leuwidamar Health Center: Not Baduy!

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccine. (Pexels/Cottonbro)

LEBAK - A video showing an elementary school student who looks unable to get an injection when he is about to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has caused a stir. This video has also gone viral on social media.

In the video uploaded to the Twitter account @Alfajri221819, the boy wearing elementary school clothes is seen silent when the vaccine is about to be injected.

The officer who tried to administer the injection was unable to insert the needle into the boy's arm. In fact, the experiment was repeated several times.

In the upload, it was stated that the Banten Provincial Health Office had difficulties in injecting children from the Outer Baduy Tribe. This is because children are equipped with immune knowledge by their parents.

"Banten Provincial Health Office has difficulty injecting vaccines to Outer Baduy Tribe children because many children are provided with immune knowledge by their parents," the account wrote.

The Banten provincial health office has difficulty injecting vaccines to children from the Baduy tribe outside because many children are provided with immune knowledge by their parents pic.twitter.com/hN08LuHYlM

— AL (@alfajri221810) March 5, 2022

The Chief Medical Officer of the Cisimeut Health Center, Leuwidamar, Lebak Regency, Iton Rustandi spoke about the viral video of the vaccine for Baduy children. He confirmed that the incident was not from the Baduy tribe.

"Hoax. It means that the video exists, but it's not a Baduy," said Iton when contacted by Voi.id, Sunday, March 6.

Iton explained that there were several reasons that ensured that the video was not from the Baduy tribe or their place of work. He revealed, if the children of the Baduy Tribe do not go to school.

"We immediately clarified with the team, and the (vaccination) team stated that as long as they inject (to residents) Baduy until now, there have been no cases of immune school children in our work area, including Baduy. Moreover, their children (Baduy) are not allowed to go to school," he explained.

In addition, he has also given injections to parents and even people from the Baduy tribe themselves, they are normal and not immune as seen in the video.

"Everything is normal. Even the Baduy people ask for it too, they want to go to the city to be vaccinated. The original Baduy people, who are already 70 years old, are not immune, especially the small ones," he said.