The task force data received here on Friday showed that the number of first booster dose recipients swelled by 251,129 to touch 60,899,370 people.
Thus, so far, coverage of the first booster dose vaccination had reached 29.95 percent of a total of 234,666,020 citizens targeted to get vaccinated against COVID-19 under the government vaccination program.
Meanwhile, with 93,908 citizens receiving their second shot on Friday, the number of citizens that were administered the second dose or were fully vaccinated against the virus reached 171,060,711. Thus, the coverage of second-dose vaccinations reached 72.90 percent of the target.
Thereafter, the number of people, who have at least received the first dose, increased by 16,177, thereby taking the total tally to 203,389,573, or 86.67 percent of the target recipients.
As for the fourth dose or second booster dose, which is currently being administered to health workers, the total number of recipients has, so far, reached 377,690 people.
As part of the 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.
Earlier, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin reported that Indonesia currently has 10 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available at its central and regional storage facilities.
"We still have around 10 million doses of vaccine stock. Around 60 percent of them are free vaccines given by foreign (countries') governments," he remarked while making a presentation on COVID-19 during a hearing meeting with Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR), which was followed on the DPR's YouTube channel from here on Tuesday.
Vaccine donation offers from abroad have kept coming, but they have been postponed to match the development in the people's interest in getting vaccinated in the country, Sadikin added.
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Translator: Zubi Mahrofi, Raka Adji
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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