KPCPEN: 192,360 South Sulawesi Residents Have Get Booster Vaccination

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MAKASSAR - The Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN) noted that 192,360 South Sulawesi residents had received booster COVID-19 vaccinations or 2.73 percent of the total target of 7,058,141 people as of March 8, 2022. The Acting Head of the South Sulawesi Health Office, Dr. Arman Bausat, said that the speed of vaccination must continue to be intensified following the increase in COVID-19 cases with the presence of the Omicron variant, which spreads four times faster than the delta variant. of them are those who have comorbidities and have not been vaccinated or have not had their vaccine complete," said Dr. Arman in Makassar, Thursday, March 10, quoted by Antara. Therefore, the South Sulawesi Health Office will not be careless to target the public to get the booster vaccine again. According to Dr. Arman, Booster vaccinations are presented by the government to increase the community's immune power to deal with COVID-19 which continues to emerge with new variants.

"To get maximum immunity, the vaccine must also be complete," said Dr. Arman asserted. The South Sulawesi COVID-19 Task Force also noted that 85.08 percent of South Sulawesi residents who were required to be vaccinated had been vaccinated with dose 1 and 58.09 percent who had undergone vaccine dose 2. Meanwhile, in the group of children, 46.75 percent or 418,916 children out of a total target of 896,163 people have received the COVID-19 vaccine dose 1. While the new dose 2 is 142,386 people or 15.89 percent.