Jakarta – An overall of 9,187,757 people in Indonesia have received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine since Wednesday, a boost of 212,391 compared to the day previously, according to the government’s COVID-19 task force.
Data from the task force shows the variety of individuals getting their first and second doses of the vaccine increased by 169,229 to 4,547,580 on Wednesday compared to the previous day.
The federal government has set a target of inoculating 40,349,049 people in the first and 2nd stage of the nationwide vaccination program.
The very first and second stages of the vaccination program are targeting health care employees, state authorities, public service officers, seniors, civil servant, teachers, lecturers, traders, and spiritual figures.
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The federal government has actually rolled out a nationwide vaccination program considering that January 13 this year to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
According to the Health Ministry’s estimates, it will take 15 months to immunize about 70 percent of the country’s overall population to build herd immunity versus COVID-19
By March, 2022, the federal government is targeting to inoculate a minimum of 181.5 million people, including 1.3 million paramedics and 17.4 million public sector workers, in 34 provinces, the Health Ministry’s representative for the vaccination program, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, specified recently.
According to Tarmizi, the first stage of the government’s immunization program has actually been divided into two periods: January-April, 2021 and April, 2021- March, 2022.
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