The success (of the program) will not be (identified by) how many vaccines have been administered, but how many homeowners have been vaccinated
Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has stated that 50 percent of Jakarta locals require to be immunized against the coronavirus to construct herd immunity and control COVID-19 transmission.
” So our research is not over. The homework is still long. It needs to be done seriously,” he stated at an online interview here on Saturday.
Vaccinations need to be done by including all sides to persuade citizens to get immunized versus COVID-19, he added.
” The success (of the program) will not be (determined by) how many vaccines have been administered, however how many residents have actually been immunized,” he remarked.
Since Friday ( July 9, 2021), more than 5.38 million Jakarta citizens have actually gotten their very first COVID-19 vaccine dosage and over 1.95 million homeowners have actually been fully immunized against the infection, he disclosed.
The Jakarta provincial government is heightening the COVID-19 vaccination of locals aged 12 years and above at a variety of vaccination centers, he said.
The provincial government has actually also presented mobile vaccination services targeting houses, consisting of densely-populated locations, he added.
The result of a serology study carried out by a group of scientists from University of Indonesia’s public health professors has revealed that 49.2 percent of Jakarta homeowners contracted COVID-19 in June, 2021.
Baswedan expressed the hope that the locals who contracted the infection would have resistance against SARS-CoV-2, which triggers COVID-19
UI epidemiologist Pandu Riono said vaccinations must be high on the list of the Jakarta administration’s priorities considering that almost 50 percent of Jakarta citizens have no antibodies against the infection.
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