Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – The recipients of the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia have now reached 47,952,208 after an additional 246,063 people underwent the third vaccination as a booster today, according to data compiled by the COVID-19 Task Force.
From data received in Jakarta on Tuesday, the recipients of the first dose also experienced an increase of 53,964 people and 63,431 people who received the second dose.
Thus, so far, the total recipients of the first injection of the COVID-19 vaccine have reached 200,920,692 people and 168,159,857 people for the second vaccination.
The government targets 208,265,720 Indonesians to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in order to obtain communal immunity or herd immunity from the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The COVID-19 Handling Task Force also reported new cases of COVID-19 in the country with 930 new cases confirmed today. The addition was accompanied by reports of 548 recovered patients and ten deaths.
In a press conference, Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Prof. Wiku Adisasmito, said that he had identified a number of situations that were suspected to be the trigger factors for the increase in the rate of positive and active COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks.
“Until now, we cannot conclude the increase in positive cases and active cases in Indonesia, but several potentials have been identified,” Wiku said in a virtual press conference followed from Jakarta, Tuesday.
Some of these situations are related to population mobility which continues to increase, the discipline of health protocols seems lax and the threat of new virus mutations, namely the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that have entered Indonesia. (mhn/bbs)
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