Residents Of South Sumatra OKU Come On, COVID Vaccines Again, Now Stocks Have Added 1,200 Doses

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OKU - Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Regency, South Sumatra received 1,200 doses of Pfizer type of COVID-19 vaccine to meet the needs of primary and booster dose vaccination for the community. "There were 1,200 doses of Pfizer type of COVID-19 vaccine that we received from Palembang on Friday evening," said Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the OKU Health Service, Andi Prapto in Baturaja, Antara, Sunday, November 6. He said the additional dose of vaccine was to meet the needs of community vaccination which had been delayed since the last week in the October 2022 period. "During a week of vaccinations for doses 1, 2 and 3 were delayed because the stock ran out. Alhamdulillah, now we have received vaccine shipments from Palembang City so that this program can be resumed," he said. Thousands of doses of the vaccine that arrived in OKU Regency have been distributed to all health centers and hospitals in the region to be given to the public of all age groups who have not been vaccinated. The distribution of vaccines to all health facilities is carried out to accelerate the achievement of group immunity for all people to avoid the corona virus. To speed up the vaccination process, his party deployed 120 trained vaccinators from all UPTD Puskesmas and three hospitals in the local area so that the program runs optimally. Based on data, the coverage of the vaccination program in OKU Regency as a whole as of November 4, 2022, namely for the first dose it reached 83.1 percent and 68.3 percent of the second stage of the 310,0983 target people. "The realization of the first dose of booster vaccine was only 22.1 percent and the second dose of health workers was 37.52 percent," said Andi. The OKU District Health Office received an additional dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Palembang. BETWEEN