COVID-19 Vaccination Rate in Bali Has Reached 100 Percent

TheIndonesia.id - Bali has been striving to accelerate its COVID-19 vaccination program as a key to reopening its tourism sector. Bali's Covid-19 Task Force Secretary, I Made Rentin, stated that the first dose of vaccination rate has reached above 100 percent of the target.

A total of 3,427,004 people have been vaccinated with the first dose or 100,63 percent from the 3,405,130 targets.

The highest place in Bali to conduct the first dose is Denpasar. A total of 829,186 people, or 145.02 percent of targeted, has been vaccinated. The lowest rate of the first dose vaccination in Bali is Buleleng regency, with 80.73 percent (571,782 people).

Rentin explained that they had delivered the first vaccination dose to 51,865 health workers, 371,767 seniors, 1,072,037 public servants, 1,447,500 people, and 483,835 adolescence.

According to 10 November 2021 data, the second dose of vaccination has been delivered to 2,971,864, or 87.27 percent of the target.

Rentin added that the second dose of vaccination in nine regencies in Bali had achieved chiefly 69 percent.

Bali has achieved 7,054,149 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine consisting of 3.155.138 doses of AstraZeneca, 3,779,140 doses of Sinovac, 30,607 doses of Sinopharm, and 89,264 doses of Moderna.

"Now, we still need to boost the COVID-19 vaccination for seniors," said Rentin, who is also the Chief Executive of the Bali Province Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD).

The number of seniors who are targeted for vaccination in Bali Province is 454,904 people. The seniors who have received the first dose of vaccination are 371,767 people (81.7 percent from the target) and the seniors who have received the second dose of vaccination are 68.5 percent from the target.