We must encourage our people
Bandung, W Java – The West Java provincial government is focusing on winning the support of residents through public education and awareness campaigns to motivate them to participate in the COVID-19 vaccination program, an authorities stated.
Public education and awareness programs are essential for making the vaccination program effective, chair of West Java’s COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPC-PEN), Setiawan Wangsaatmaja, stated here on Wednesday.
To attain this, public education and awareness projects need to be optimally performed to obtain the West Java citizens’ support and participation in the approaching COVID-19 vaccination program, he added.
” We must persuade our people,” he told individuals at a conference of the West Java COVID-19 Reaction Job Force’s interaction division.
Wangsaatmaja stated the local authorities have prepared 1,087 public health centers and vaccine storage facilities for the upcoming vaccination program.
To get ready for the very first phase of the COVID-19 immunization program, set up in the third week of December, 2020, President Joko Widodo earlier advised ministries and agencies to conduct nationwide vaccine simulations.
In connection with the vaccination program, deputy chair of the COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPC-PEN), Erick Thohir, said the federal government will quickly choose whether COVID-19 red zones would be focused on under the program.
” Let us wait on the federal government’s decision (which is anticipated) within a couple of days. There will be a meeting with guvs, mayors, and district heads for talks about whether we must prioritize red zones with high infection and mortality rates,” he elaborated.
Speaking at a webinar themed “preparing infrastructure for COVID-19 vaccination data” on Tuesday, Thohir said, in keeping with Presidential Regulation No.99/2020, the federal government has set a preliminary target of immunizing those aged between 18 and 59 years.
He also interested citizens to take part actively in the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program. Research study has actually revealed that 66 percent of Indonesians are keen to get immunized, while 16 percent are reluctant to join the vaccination program, he kept in mind.
” I do not know the factors of those refusing to get immunized. Regarding the concerns of halal or haram, we have let the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) to solve this matter,” he said.
Indonesia has actually been aiming to win the battle against the novel coronavirus illness, which at first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019 and then spread worldwide, including to countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Indonesia officially revealed its first infections on March 2 this year.
The Indonesian government has actually regularly expressed self-confidence in the capacity of the COVID-19 vaccine for helping win the battle versus the COVID-19 pandemic, which has positioned a severe risk to public health and the economy.
Over the previous few months, the federal government has actually been working to secure possible COVID-19 vaccines for Indonesians through bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
The government is also supporting research efforts towards developing the country’s own COVID-19 vaccine, Merah Putih (Red and White), named after the colors of the nationwide flag.
In addition, Indonesia is working together with China and the United Kingdom for the procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines. (INE)
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