Over 13 Million Indonesians Get Fully Vaccinated, Says COVID-19 Task Force

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's COVID-19 Task Force announced that as of Sunday at 12 noon, the country has got 13,109,031 fully-vaccinated citizens.

The total number of fully-vaccinated citizens was reached after 90,507 more Indonesians got their second dose of COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, the task force noted.

The single-day increase of second-dose recipients, however, was much lower that of the first-dose ones that was recorded at 1,083,632, according to the task force.

The single-day increase has brought Indonesia's first-dose recipients to 27,115,763 as of Sunday at 12 noon, the task force said.

Over the past few weeks, Jakarta and several other provinces across Indonesia have witnessed an alarming resurgence of COVID-19 cases amid the government's ongoing vaccination drives.

Indonesia's daily coronavirus cases climbed by 21,095 on Saturday, taking the total number of cases recorded since the start of the pandemic in March, 2020 to 2,093,962.

Jakarta added the highest number of daily cases at 9,271, followed by West Java (3,787), Central Java (2,305), East Java (989), and Yogyakarta (782).

Only North Kalimantan reported no new cases, according to the government's COVID-19 Task Force.

In response to the alarming resurgence of cases, President Joko Widodo has highlighted the necessity for state institutions and all levels of government to be on the same wavelength.

The current situation that Indonesia is facing is still an extraordinary one and must be responded to with fast and appropriate policies, the President added.

Such a fast and appropriate response requires state institutions, the central government, and regional governments to be on the same frequency, he said on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic initially struck the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019 and thereafter spread across the world, including to nations in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Indonesian government announced the nation's first confirmed cases on March 2, 2020.

Since then, the central and regional governments have striven incessantly to flatten the nation's coronavirus curve by applying healthcare protocols and social restrictions.

As part of efforts to win the fight against COVID-19, the Indonesian government has also been conducting a nationwide vaccination program to contain infections since January 13, 2021.

Indonesia recently received 10 million doses of bulk vaccines from China's Sinovac.

As of June 20, 2021, the nation has received 104,728,400 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, comprising 94.5 million Sinovac vaccines, 8.228 million AstraZeneca vaccines, and 2 million Sinopharm vaccines.

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