Total Indonesian Citizens Received 53.83 Million Booster Vaccines As Of 21 July

Illustration of a booster COVID-19 vaccination. (Between)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) reported that the number of Indonesians who had received the third or booster dose reached 53.83 million as of Thursday, July 21, at 12.00 WIB.

Data from the COVID-19 Task Force noted that the number of residents who had received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine increased by 226,234, bringing it to a total of 53,830,281 people.

Thus, it is recorded that injections of booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given to 25.84 percent of the total citizens who were targeted for COVID-19 vaccination, as many as 208,265,720 million people.

Meanwhile, based on the Antara report, the population who received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine increased by 39,635 people to 169,703,944 people, which covered 81.48 percent of the total target.

While the recipients of the first dose increased by 33,916 people, bringing the total number to 202,079,997 people or had been given to 97.02 percent of the total target.

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin expects the number of recipients of the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine to increase to prevent the risk of severity amid rising cases.

"People who are not boosted have 20 times higher risk than people who are boosted," said Minister of Health Budi.

Currently, he continued, people who have received the third dose of vaccination have only reached about 50 million people or about 25 percent of the targeted 208.26 million people.

"We want more because cases are rising," he said.