DDHK.ORG - The government will start the implementation of a further or booster dose vaccination program on January 12, 2022. This was conveyed by Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a press statement after attending a Limited Meeting on Evaluation of the Implementation of Restrictions on Community Activities (PPKM) which was chaired directly by the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi), Monday, 3 January 2022, at the Presidential Office, Jakarta.
"The booster vaccination program has been decided by the President to run on January 12," said Minister of Health Budi.
Booster vaccines will be given to people aged 18 years and over, in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization or WHO. The vaccine will be given to districts/cities that have met the criteria of 70 percent for the first dose of injection and 60 percent for the second dose.
"Until now there are 244 regencies/cities that have met these criteria," he said.
The booster vaccination will be given over a period of six months after the second dose. "We identified that there were around 21 million targets in January that have entered this category," said Budi.
For the implementation of this advanced dose of vaccination, approximately 230 million doses of vaccine are needed. Currently the government has secured around 113 million doses of the total requirement.
"We will determine the type of booster later, some are homologous or the same type, some are heterologous or have different vaccine types, which hopefully will be decided on the 10th after the recommendation from ITAGI (Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization), " he said. [Source: RI Cabinet Secretariat] [DDHKNews]
