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The government will start administering COVID-19 booster shots for free on Wednesday, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said, in an effort to strengthen the population’s immunity to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
After months of waiting, Mohammad Noor, a Rohingya refugee who currently stays at the Hotel Pelangi temporary shelter in Medan, North Sumatra, finally received his first COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
A property businesswoman in Medan, North Sumatra, has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and additional fines after a court found her guilty of illegally charging people for COVID-19 vaccines, the supply of which was secured by bribing state-employed doctors.
Despite the Drugs and Foods Monitoring Agency's (BPOM) approval of the Coronavac vaccine for children aged 6 to 11, the government said it would wait until 50 percent of Indonesia's targeted population has been fully inoculated before vaccinating the age group.
The government is working to close the stark gap in vaccination rates between regions across the vast archipelago, which remains a problem even though Indonesia recently passed 200 million COVID-19 jabs and while a third wave of infections looms ahead of the year-end holidays.
The government is going to start rolling out COVID-19 vaccine booster shots starting next year, prioritizing the provisional oversupply of shots to be administered for the elderly and people with immunity problems.
The government has set up a new target of administering 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine shots per day in October, but experts called on the government to address fundamental issues, particularly improving vaccine access to vulnerable groups, before setting new daily goal.
Nationwide COVID-19 vaccine coverage for the first dose stood at 33 percent by Thursday, and for the second shot it was around 19 percent. But there is a stark gap in vaccination rates among the 34 provinces, partly blamed on unequal distribution of supply and poor vaccine management.
Jakarta has carried out an exemplary COVID-19 vaccination acceleration since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ordered the capital to inoculate 7.5 million out of 10.5 million residents before the end of this month in order to achieve “herd immunity”.
