The number of booster recipients increased by 21,001 on Wednesday, taking the total count to 58,908,239, according to task force data received here the same day.
Meanwhile, the number of fully vaccinated people, or those who have received two vaccine doses, rose by 5,459 to touch 170,549,667.
The task force's data also showed that the number of Indonesians who have received at least the first dose under the nationwide vaccination program swelled by 9,852 to reach 203,027,594 as of Wednesday.
As part of efforts to boost community immunity against COVID-19, the Indonesian government launched a nationwide vaccination program on January 13, 2021. President Joko Widodo was the first vaccine recipient under the program.
Overall, the government is targeting to vaccinate as many as 234,666,020 citizens across the country.
Based on the task force's data, so far, 86.5 percent of the targeted recipients have received the first vaccine dose, 72.6 percent have received the second dose, and 25 percent have received the third dose.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, at a virtual press conference on Tuesday, affirmed that currently, the COVID-19 vaccine stock is still safe and in excess due to donations from other countries that have continued to arrive.
Based on the Ministry of Health's vaccine dashboard, currently, 13,064,161 vaccine doses are available in the country.
The sufficient stock of the vaccine has encouraged the government to start providing a fourth dose or second booster to around 4 million targeted health workers in the country.
Since its rollout on July 29, 2022, the coverage of the fourth dose vaccination for health workers has reached 269,174.
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