Tribratanews.polri.go.id - Jakarta. Greater Jakarta Metro. Regional Police detailed that 96 percent of Jakarta residents had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
"Before the launch of the Merdeka Vaccination on August 1, 2021, around 84.55 percent of Jakarta residents were vaccinated against Covid-19, now it's almost 96 percent," explained the Head of Public Relations of Greater Jakarta Metro. Regional Police, Pol. Grand Commissioner Yusri Yunus, Sunday, (08/08/21)
Police Commissioner. Yusri Yunus also said that people now understand that herd immunity is the solution to ending the COVID-19 pandemic and the fastest way to achieve it is by vaccination.
"There are only three ways to break the chain of transmission of Covid-19, namely the first vaccine, the second vaccine and the third vaccine," explained the Indonesian Military Academy graduate in 1991.
According to the Intermediate Officer of the Greater Jakarta Metro. Regional Police, the positive number of Covid-19 continues to decline along with the increasing number of residents who have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
"Jakarta, August 7, 2021, as many as 2008 positive cases, it means that herd immunity has been established in Jakarta because most of them have been vaccinated," said the former Head of the Pensat Bureau of the Public Relations Division of the Police.
The Free Vaccination Program is one of the strategies of the Jakarta Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda) to accelerate vaccination in order to achieve 100 percent communal immunity (herd immunity) in the capital city.
The Independent Vaccination launched by the National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo will take place on August 1-17, 2021 in order to welcome the Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia.
The vaccination program that is now being launched is a solution for the people of Jakarta because it is located in a location close to where they live so that it is easily accessible.
The Free Vaccination Program created by the Indonesian National Police targets 100 percent of Jakarta residents to be vaccinated on August 17, 2021.
In this program, Greater Jakarta Metro. Regional Police has established 687 vaccine outlets in 900 Neighbourhoods which are supported by volunteers such as health workers and student regiments (Menwa), Neighbourhood administrators.
