80 Percent Of Children In Bangka Belitung Have Been Injected With COVID-19 Vaccines

Child/Intermediate Vaccination

PANGKALPINANG - As many as 80.41 percent of the total 145.197 children aged six to 11 years in the Bangka Belitung Islands Province have received the first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccination, according to data from the local COVID-19 Task Force.

"A total of 116.755 children have received complete vaccinations," said the Coordinator of Vaccine Distribution of the Bangka Belitung Islands COVID-19 Task Force, dr. Bangun in Pangkalpinang, reported by Antara, Tuesday, April 12.

Children aged six to 11 years who have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are spread across Pangkalpinang (16.832), East Belitung (11.012), South Bangka (16.243), Central Bangka (14.805), West Bangka (17.576), Belitung (15.082 ), and Bangka (25.205).

Bangun said that the complete COVID-19 vaccination coverage for children was highest in East Belitung with 95.75 percent of the total 11,501 children aged six to 11 years having received the first and second doses of vaccination.

"The lowest is in Central Bangka, (coverage) is 69.18 percent of the 21.400 children," he said.

He said that the first dose of vaccination had been carried out on 141.713 children or 97.60 percent of the vaccination target for the group of children aged six to 11 years in Bangka Belitung.

Children aged six to 11 years who had received the first dose of vaccination were scattered in Bangka (30.817), Belitung (16.929), West Bangka (20.821), Central Bangka (18.687), South Bangka (20.750), East Belitung (12.395) and Pangkalpinang (21.314).

Vaccination coverage for children aged six to 11 years was highest in East Belitung (107.77 percent) and the lowest in Central Bangka (87.32 percent).

The Provincial Government of the Bangka Belitung Islands is targeting COVID-19 vaccination for children aged six to 11 years to be completed 100 percent before Eid Al-Fitr 1443 Hijri.

"We are optimistic that this 100 percent target will be achieved, especially with the government's policy requiring Lebaran travelers to have a second vaccination for children and a booster vaccination for adults," he said.