BANDUNG - Bandung City Government (Pemkot), West Java distributed an additional vaccine that had just been received from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) as many as 2,000 vials to anticipate an increase in COVID-19 cases.
Currently, 912 active cases of COVID-19 are recorded in the city of Bandung. Meanwhile, in the previous two weeks at the end of October 2022, there were 524 active cases of COVID-19.
"Anticipate the handling of the increase in COVID-19 in the city of Bandung, in the near future the 2,000 vials of vaccines will be distributed," said Head of the Bandung City COVID-19 Task Force Asep Saeful Gufron in Bandung, Antara, Friday, November 11.
He said the additional 2,000 vials of Pfizer vaccine were equivalent to 24 thousand doses. Prior to that, according to him, the Bandung City Government had also received 1,000 vials of vaccine, but the supplies were running low.
According to him, the thousands of doses of the vaccine could immediately increase the stock of vaccines that are running low in all puskesmas in Bandung City. The use of the 2,000 vials that have been received can be completed within the next one month.
He admitted that previously he proposed 5,000 vials of vaccine to the Ministry of Health to fill the vaccine stock vacancy in mid-October 2022. However, according to him, vaccines from the Ministry of Health will be given in stages to anticipate expired vaccines.
Asep also encouraged the vaccination to be carried out in various places other than only at the puskesmas to complete the vaccination program for 2.1 million people in Bandung City who were targeted for vaccination.
So far, the booster dose vaccination process in the city of Bandung has reached 50.4 percent, or 865 thousand people who have received the third dose of vaccine.
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