"Thank God, the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 has reached 98 percent for the first dose. To reach 100 percent, the city government will push vaccination for people, who have not received the vaccine," Bandarlampung Mayor, Eva Dwiana, stated on Tuesday.
Dwiana spoke of her administration conducting mass vaccinations at several locations in Bandarlampung in order to reduce crowds, as they took into account their status of level 3 community activities restriction.
Residents keen on receiving the second or booster doses might also get it through this program, she remarked.
Apart from hosting it in select few places, they would also offer door-to-door vaccinations for the public, she confirmed.
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Dwiana stated that precautionary measures were being taken, including by establishing isolation centers, following a surge in COVID-19 cases.
"We have readied isolation centers at the Al-Furqon Mosque and the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital at Unila. However, thank God, they have not been used now since many patients are self-isolating," she explained.
This is since people were getting weary of the pandemic situation and had begun to ignore health protocols that had caused a spike in COVID-19 cases.
"For the handling of COVID-19, the Task Force Team has actually been putting in maximum (efforts). In fact, almost every day, we monitor the area, urging the public to not cease wearing masks and obey health protocols, conduct random antigen tests, and they have also imposed restrictions. However, the people have grown tired of this condition," Dwiana remarked.
According to data from the vaccine.kemkes.go.id page, recipients of the first dose of vaccine in Bandarlampung City had reached 859,847 (or 98.24 percent) and the number of people having taken the second dose of vaccine had reached 715,533 (or 81.75 percent) of the target.
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Translator: Dian Hadiyatna, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Suharto
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