Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin expects the number of recipients of the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine to increase to prevent the risk of severity amid rising cases.
“People who are not being boosted have a 20 times higher risk than people who are being boosted,” said Minister of Health Budi on the sidelines of a visit to a number of schools in the Bogor Regency area, West Java, Thursday.
Currently, he continued, people who have received the third dose of vaccination have only reached about 50,000 people or about 25 percent of the targeted 208.26 million people.
“We want more because cases are rising,” he said.
He said that the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine in the country was still quite a lot. Therefore, people are asked to immediately vaccinate.
“There’s a lot of stock from various brands of vaccines,” he said.
Previously, Lead Co-Chair of Global Health Security and COVID-19 Task Force T20 Indonesia Prof Hasbullah Thabrany reiterated that the third dose of COVID-19 vaccination (booster) is very important for people at risk, including children, during the pandemic. still ongoing.
He said that flu vaccines such as COVID-19 usually do not last a lifetime, as in the case of polio. Therefore, it is necessary to inject a booster vaccine at periods when the antibodies produced from the vaccine in the body are reduced.
He added that booster vaccines are a preventive process so that we avoid disease. “So, go booster!,” he said. (mhn/bbs)
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