60.648 Million Indonesians Have Received Booster Vaccination

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

JAKARTA - Recipients of the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia have reached 60,648,241 people as of Thursday, September 1.

This figure is based on calculations from the addition of 6,464 people who have undergone booster vaccination or the third dose.

Based on data compiled by the COVID-19 Task Force, there was an addition of 4,880 people who received the first dose of vaccine for today. The first stage of COVID-19 vaccination has been carried out in total for 203,373,395 people.

Meanwhile, citing Antara, the recipients of the second dose also increased by 5,136 people, bringing 170,966,803 Indonesians who have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Recipients of the fourth dose, who are currently still targeting health workers, have now reached 328,026 people, or an increase of 2,169 people compared to, Wednesday, September 1.

The government targets 234,666,020 people in Indonesia to undergo a COVID-19 vaccination program to achieve herd immunity from diseases that attack the respiratory system.

Regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, health expert Prof. Tjandra Yoga Aditama said the COVID-19 Bivalen vaccine is the latest breakthrough in controlling COVID-19 because it is relevant to the initial variant and Omicron.

"This latest vaccine is in accordance with the current problems. Unfortunately, this latest vaccine is not yet available in Indonesia," said Director of Postgraduate of YARSI University, Tjandra in a written statement, Wednesday, August 31.

He explained that a number of countries had made new vaccines called Bivalent. The vaccine provides protection against Omicron and also the COVID-19 variant in early 2020.