Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) witnessed the application of COVID-19 mass vaccination for traders at the Tanah Abang wholesale garment and textile market, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday.
On arrival at the Tanah Abang Market at 8: 51 a.m. regional time, President Jokowi was greeted by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
Jokowi immediately headed for the vaccination site at the balcony of the marketplace’s mosque on the 12 th flooring at Block A and the 8th floor that belongs to the market’s food court.
Some 1,500-2000 traders at the Tanah Abang Market are anticipated to receive the vaccine shots.
An overall of 9,791 traders will get the vaccine jab at the market in the very first batch.
Indonesia has actually been carrying out an across the country COVID-19 vaccination program because January 13, 2021, and it has been running smoothly, with no problems, so far, reported versus China’s Sinovac vaccine.
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President Joko Widodo has gotten two vaccine dosages on January 13 and January 27, 2021, with no unfavorable response.
The federal government has actually set a target to inoculate 181,554,464 people, or 70 percent of the overall population of Indonesia, with the aim of structure herd immunity versus the coronavirus.
Medical workers on the frontlines in the fight versus COVID-19 have actually been accorded concern in the vaccine program. The next in line to be inoculated under the vaccination program are public service officers, consisting of authorities and military personnel.
State-owned vaccine maker PT Bio Farma (Persero) has actually validated that COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated for public service officers, consisting of the Indonesian military and police, at the end of February this year.
Each person covered by the vaccine program will need to be administered two dosages of the COVID-19 vaccine. This implies Indonesia will require 362 million dosages of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate 181 million people.
Up until now, the country has actually received 28 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine and vaccine candidate from Sinovac. (INE)
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