Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) saw the execution of the COVID-19 vaccination for some 500 artists and men of culture organized at the National Gallery of Indonesia here on Monday.
” Today, thank Allah, we are together with artists, men of culture, stars, and artists. (Those) from theaters, from standard arts have all collected here to be immunized,” the president mentioned.
Jokowi was accompanied by Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Tourist and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno, Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Makariem, and Guv of Jakarta Anies Baswedan, to name a few.
” We are optimistic that all of them can be safeguarded and are not exposed to COVID-19, so that they can perform activities as usual,” the president kept in mind.
Jokowi likewise expressed optimism that progressively more number of Indonesian people would be immunized in order to lower the transmission of COVID-19
” We need to notify (the general public) of the reality that the COVID-19 pandemic still exists and is real in our country. We need to remember and stay vigilant, ‘eling lan waspodo’,” the president noted while quoting a Javanese proverb.
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Jokowi urged the public to not become reckless and to not undervalue the COVID-19 crisis.
” Do not let the existing scenario, where the curve is much better, is reducing, to increase again because we are negligent and not vigilant,” he prompted.
Recipients of the first dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine are members of the Javanese theatre Bharata ‘Wayang Orang’, comic Cak Lontong, artist Bimbim Slank, choreographer Hartati, vocalist Edo Kondologit, actor Nicholas Saputra, actor and director Slamet Rahardjo Djarot, and members of the musical group Bimbo.
Based upon information from the COVID-19 Job Force since Sunday (April 18), the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, amounting to 10,828,419, had actually currently been administered.
An overall of 5,910,921 individuals have gotten their second dosage.
The federal government has actually set a target of immunizing an overall of 181.5 million individuals to achieve herd immunity versus COVID-19
Indonesia has mainly depended on China’s Sinovac vaccine to fight versus the coronavirus illness. The nation has actually also gotten 1.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX facility collaborated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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