Jakarta – An overall of 7,206 workers at 15 airports under PT Angkasa Pura I and the headquarters of this state-owned airport operator had been administered the COVID-19 vaccine as of April 29, 2021.
” Up until the end of this April, more workers of PT Angkasa Pura I will have gotten the shots of the COVID-19 vaccine,” the aiport operator’s president director, Faik Fahmi, remarked.
The vaccine recipients comprise the company’s front liners, consisting of those serving airport clients, Fahmi kept in mind in a declaration that ANTARA priced estimate here Saturday.
PT Angkasa Pura I handles the Ngurah Rai International Airport, Juanda International Airport, Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport, Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman International Airport, and Frans Kaisiepo International Airport.
Sam Ratulangi International Airport, Syamsudin Noor International Airport, Achmad Yani International Airport, Adisucipto International Airport, Adisumarmo International Airport, Lombok International Airport, Pattimura International Airport, El Tari International Airport, Yogyakarta International Airport, and Sentani International Airport are also handled by PT Angkasa Pura I.
Fahmi kept in mind that his staff members’ participation in the government’s nationwide vaccination program had actually demonstrated the business’s seriousness in aiding to accelerate the application of the program and restore public confidence in its airport services.
The company, so far, has 9,456 workers of which 76 percent were inoculated, he confirmed.
Indonesia has been making full-scale efforts to win the fight versus the COVID-19 pandemic since March in 2015.
To include the spread of the lethal infection, the federal government has actually rolled out an across the country vaccination program considering that January 13 this year.
The Health Ministry pegs the vaccination of 181.5 million people under the nationwide program to take 15 months.
The time frame for carrying out the vaccination extends from January 2021 to March 2022.
During that period, the federal government is targeting to inoculate some 181.5 million individuals, consisting of 1.3 million paramedics and 17.4 million public sector workers in 34 provinces.
The very first stage of the government’s immunization program is segregated into two periods: January-April 2021 and April 2021- March 2022.
Since April 30, 2021, the variety of COVID-19 vaccine recipients for the second shots had reached 7,629,859, while 12,385,886 had gotten the very first shots, according to the health ministry’s data.
Even amidst vaccine rollouts, Indonesia has been grappling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic that has paralyzed countries worldwide.
Indonesia’s public health and economy have actually been dealt a significant blow from the coronavirus disease crisis, with some sectors, consisting of travel and tourism, been battered by the pandemic.
To restore the tourism sector, the Indonesian government is considering to apply a travel bubble scheme with some nations.
In the very first stage of its application, the Indonesia-Singapore travel passage will formally open to make it possible for travel for individuals between Singapore and Bintan, Riau Islands.
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