23.57 Million Indonesians Have Been Vaccinated With Boosters

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health reports that the population of Indonesia who have received the third dose of vaccine (booster) has reached 23,574,482 or an increase of 560,231 on Saturday, April 2.

Reported by Antara, data from the Ministry of Health stated that the addition of this third dose of recipients was after 159,950,991 people received the second dose of vaccine. There was an additional 264,499 people who received the second dose of vaccine on Saturday, April 2.

While the first dose of vaccine has reached 196,850,337 or there are daily additions of 131,237 people. The government targets the national vaccination target to reach 208,265,720 people.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said that antibody-boosting vaccination is an important protection for travelers going back and forth for Lebaran 2022 to minimize the impact of illness when exposed to COVID-19.

"The massive mobility of the community allows for higher transmission of COVID-19. Therefore, booster vaccination is important to help reduce the impact of illness if contracting COVID-19," said Siti Nadia.

Nadia, who is also the Secretary of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, said that the homecoming mobility is considered more massive because it involves tens of millions of people.

The results of a survey by the Transportation Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia regarding the 2022 Eid homecoming, the potential for people who will carry out homecoming this year is around 80 million people.

This number, he said, was far more than the movement of spectators at the Mandalika MotoGP event on March 18-20 2022, which was around 60 thousand people.

"So we need booster vaccinations to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19," he said.