New Booster Coverage Of 36.92 Percent, Tasikmalaya City Government Ready To Synergize With Agencies For Vaccination

Illustration of a COVID-19 vaccine for a booster. (Antaranews)

JABAR - The City Government of Tasikmalaya continues to deploy a health team to increase the achievement of dose 3 vaccination targeting the general public.

"Vaccination has increased quite a bit in the last few days, several agencies have also contacted us to implement a 'booster'," said Head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Tasikmalaya City Health Office Asep Hendra when contacted, Wednesday, July 13.

The daily report from the Tasikmalaya City Health Office regarding the achievement of vaccination was recorded that dose 1 reached 102.56 percent of the vaccination target of 560,243 people, plus there were people from outside the region.

Furthermore, the achievement of dose 2 vaccination was 81.61 percent or as many as 457,212 people, and dose 3 or booster was 36.92 percent or as many as 206,815 people.

The Tasikmalaya City Government, he said, was ready to follow up on the central government's instructions to continue providing services to people who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

"This means that there is a policy from the center that is sufficient to increase coverage," he said, according to Antara.

He revealed that vaccinations and swab tests for the community will continue to be carried out to overcome and prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 outbreak which is still happening in the City of Tasikmalaya.

In the latest report, he said, currently there are six people who are positive for COVID-19 and must undergo medical treatment at the hospital.

"Indeed there has been an increase, the results of the 'swab' test of patients who were previously treated, when they were tested positive, now there are six people being treated," he said.

He added that the Tasikmalaya City Government is also currently tightening the application of the PeduliLindungi application system in every public space to encourage people to be vaccinated and continue to apply health protocols.

"Of course this will be input for the task force to tighten the use of PeduliLindungi," he said.