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Jokowi aims to speed vaccination through door-to-door vaccine push
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Health workers vaccinate residents for COVID-19 during a mobile vaccination drive at the Cipedak subdistrict office in South Jakarta on July 13, 2021. (Antara/Indrianto Eko Suwarso)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said the government will continue to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the country, aiming to inoculate more than 70 percent of Indonesia's targeted population with the first jab by the end of this year.
"We have rolled out some 171 million vaccine doses so far. We want to administer at least 270 million shots by the end of December. So we have a lot of work to do in the next two months," Jokowi said on Wednesday.
As of Thursday, some 53 percent of the country's 208 million targeted population had received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and around 31 percent had been fully vaccinated. This accounts for a combined total of 175 million shots.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that with the current vaccination rate of around 1.9 million jabs a day, he was optimistic the country could achieve the target and even exceed it.
"We have met our target of administering 2 million shots per day twice this month and four times in September. With the current vaccination rate, we could administer around 300 million doses by the end of the year," Budi said in a statement.
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Earlier, Jokowi said the government had been trying to expedite the immunization campaign, including by hosting mass vaccination events and having workers go door-to-door to get the remaining Indonesians vaccinated.
