The President of Indonesia said more than 70% of citizens will be vaccinated against the new crown before the end of the year

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The President of Indonesia said that more than 70% of the people will be vaccinated against the new crown by the end of the year

　　China News Agency, Jakarta, September 7 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) Indonesian President Joko Widodo, when inspecting the new crown vaccination situation in a school in East Java Province of the country on the 7th, required all 34 provinces across the country to complete at least 70% by the end of this year. The goal of people's vaccination.

　　Indonesia, with a population of 270 million, launched a national COVID-19 vaccination program on January 13 this year.

As of the 7th, more than 68.2 million people in the country have been vaccinated, of which more than 39.16 million people have completed the two doses, and nearly 730,000 people have received the third booster shot.

　　Since the second wave of the epidemic rebounded in June, Indonesia has significantly accelerated its vaccination rate.

Visits to vaccination sites across the country have become Joko's most important work schedule.

In addition to the local government and health departments, the country's military, police, and intelligence agencies also concentrated their efforts on vaccination.

Many places even launched door-to-door vaccination measures.

　　According to data reported by the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the country has so far obtained nearly 230 million doses of the new crown vaccine through various channels.

As for reaching the vaccination target on time, officials of the Ministry of Health said that "the vaccine supply can be guaranteed."

　　The acceleration of vaccination speed has achieved obvious results in the control of the second wave of epidemics in the country.

The current epidemic in the capital Jakarta, where nearly 90% of the people have been vaccinated, has slowed down, and the number of new confirmed cases dropped to 262 that day.

At its peak in July, the province’s increasing number of confirmed cases had approached 15,000, becoming the “storm center” of the second wave of epidemics in Indonesia.

　　The Indonesian official notified that in the afternoon that there were 7,201 new confirmed cases in the country in the past 24 hours, with a total of 4,140,634 confirmed cases; 683 new deaths and a total of 137,156 deaths.

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