Still Low, Only 6.57 Percent Of Papuans Are Injected With Booster Vaccines

Papua Provincial Health Office in Jayapura. (BETWEEN PHOTO/HO-Personal Document)

JAYAPURA - The Papua Health Service (Dinkes) stated that only 6.57 percent or as many as 169,707 people received the COVID-19 booster vaccine.

The Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Papua Health Office, Dr. Aaron Rumainum, admitted that the coverage of Papuans who had received the booster vaccine was not as much as those who had the second vaccine, which was recorded at 25.74 percent or 664,977 people.

The target for the COVID-19 vaccine in Papua was 2,583,771 people. Five districts and cities in Papua with vaccine coverage both above 50 percent of the target number, namely Merauke Regency as many as 75.8 percent or 94,652 people with a target of 124,856 people, Mimika 68.5 percent or 117,929 people with a target of 172,185 people.

Then Jayapura City 65 percent or 150,637 people with a target of 231,683 people, Keerom Regency 62 percent or 20,157 people with a target of 32,492 people, and Jayapura Regency 60.8 percent or 53,020 people from the target of 87,226 people.

The area with the lowest coverage of both COVID-19 vaccines is Lanny Jaya Regency, which is only 1.1 percent or 1,465 people from the target of 129,937 people.

He admitted that there are still many areas in Papua where vaccination coverage is low, so outlets and health centers and hospitals still hold vaccinations.

"Hopefully the number of people who are vaccinated will continue to grow so that people have resistance to the COVID-19 virus," said Aaron Rumainum.