Jakarta is now focusing on the vaccination acceleration program. Currently, Jakarta holds the highest vaccination rate in Indonesia. Thank God
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Jakarta Metro Jaya Police claimed that 95.5 percent of the capital city’s population was vaccinated, thereby indicating that it had achieved the WHO-set standard of inoculating 70 percent of the populace to achieve herd immunity.

"Today, Jakarta has reached (the target of vaccinating) 95.5 percent (of the population). We have surpassed WHO's standard to achieve herd immunity," Jakarta Metro Jaya Police spokesperson Senior Commissioner Yusri Yunus noted in a written statement here on Tuesday.

Yunus remarked that the Merdeka Vaccination Program, conducted by the Jakarta Metro Jaya Police, had also succeeded in pushing Jakarta to clock the highest vaccination rate in Indonesia.

"Jakarta is now focusing on the vaccination acceleration program. Currently, Jakarta holds the highest vaccination rate in Indonesia. Thank God," he affirmed.


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Yunus highlighted that vaccinations and health protocols were part of the efforts of the TNI, Police, and the government to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission. Jakarta's mass vaccination programs are expected to become a barometer for other regions in Indonesia to follow suit.

The Merdeka Vaccination Program is one of the Jakarta Regional Leadership Coordination Forum’s (Forkopimda’s) strategies to expedite vaccination to achieve 100-percent herd immunity in the capital city.

The vaccination program, launched by Chief of National Police, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, is being held from August 1 to August 17, 2021, to usher in the 76th Anniversary of Indonesia's independence.

The Merdeka Vaccination Program targets 100 percent of Jakarta's population to be vaccinated by August 17, 2021, by providing 687 vaccination booths in 900 community units.

In a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19 and build herd immunity, the Indonesian government had launched a nationwide vaccination program on January 13, 2021, with President Joko Widodo being the first vaccine recipient.


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