Presiden Jokowi Instruksikan Percepat Vaksinasi Covid-19
WHO Warns of Fresh Indonesia Surge Fed by Virus Variants
Editor : Kemal A Praghotsa
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PRESIDEN RI Joko Widodo memerintahkan pihak berwenang untuk mempercepat kampanye vaksinasi Covid-19 agar tidak ada lagi penyebaran virus Covid-19 di Indonesia.
"Perlu percepatan vaksinasi untuk mencapai kekebalan komunal, yang diharapkan dapat menghentikan penyebaran COVID-19," kata Presiden Joko Widodo dalam sambutannya saat mengunjungi pusat vaksinasi di Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat, pada Kamis [17/6]
Presiden Jokowi mengatakan, para menteri kabinet dan pemerintah daerah untuk meningkatkan jumlah orang yang divaksinasi setiap hari menjadi satu juta pada bulan depan. Hal ini lantaran Indonesia saat ini memvaksinasi setengah juta orang per hari.
Indonesia, negara terpadat keempat di dunia, bertujuan untuk menginokulasi lebih dari 181 juta dari 270 juta penduduknya pada Maret 2022, tetapi saat ini baru memvaksinasi penuh 11,8 juta orang dan sebagian memvaksinasi 9,6 juta lainnya.
Juru Bicara Satgas Covid-19, Wiku Adisasmoto mengatakan lambatnya kemajuan tersebut dapat disebabkan oleh terbatasnya pasokan vaksin global, ketidaksiapan sistem kesehatan nasional, dan keraguan terhadap vaksin. Pemerintah telah menerima 92,2 juta dosis vaksin sejauh ini.
Indonesia saat ini jumlah kasus baru yang dikonfirmasi naik menjadi lebih dari 12.600 pada hari Kamis, peningkatan yang disebabkan oleh perjalanan selama liburan Idul Fitri bulan lalu serta kedatangan varian virus baru, seperti versi Delta yang pertama kali ditemukan di India. Di Jakarta jumlah tempat tidur rumah sakit yang ditempati telah melonjak hingga 75% minggu ini dari 45% minggu lalu, menurut data pemerintah Indonesia seperti dikutip Associated Press yang dilansir MailOnline.
INDONESIA´S PRESIDENT ordered authorities to speed up the country´s vaccination campaign as the World Health Organization warned Thursday of the need to increase social restrictions in the country amid a fresh surge of coronavirus infections caused by worrisome variants.
"We need vaccination acceleration in order to achieve communal immunity, which we hope can stop the COVID-19 spread," President Joko Widodo said in a remarks while visiting a vaccination center just outside the capital, Jakarta.
Widodo said he ordered his cabinet ministers and local governments to increase the number of people vaccinated each day to 1 million by next month. He said Indonesia is currently vaccinating half a million people a day.
Indonesia, the world´s fourth most populous country, aims to inoculate more than 181 million of its 270 million people by March 2022, but authorities have only fully vaccinated 11.8 million people and partially vaccinated another 9.6 million others.
National COVID-19 task force spokesman Wiku Adisasmito said the slow progress can be put down to limited global vaccine supply, the unpreparedness of the national health system and vaccine hesitancy. The government has received 92.2 million vaccine doses so far.
Indonesia saw its number of confirmed new cases climb to more than 12,600 on Thursday, an increase blamed on travel during last month´s Eid al-Fitr holiday as well as the arrival of new virus variants, such as the the Delta version first found in India. In Jakarta the number of hospital beds occupied has shot up to 75% this week from 45% last week, government data shows.
The WHO in its situation report Thursday noted that Indonesia´s drastic increase in bed occupancy rates is a major concern and necessitates in the implementation of stricter public health and social measures, including large-scale social restrictions.
"With increased transmission due to variants of concern, urgent action is needed to contain the situation in many provinces," it said.
Indonesian health officials say they´ve detected the Delta variant in Jakarta, Central Java and East Java provinces. They say they have spotted three of the four variants of concern flagged by the WHO.
Adisasmito said a spike in coronavirus infections has been seen this week in Jakarta, Banten, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta and East Java provinces. All are located on Java, the most populous of Indonesia´s more than 17,000 islands.
Indonesia has reported more than 1.9 million virus cases since the pandemic began, with more than 53,700 deaths, the highest toll in Southeast Asia. Those numbers are thought to be an undercount due to a lack of widespread testing.
