Tribunnews.com Reporter, Rina Ayu
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – The government is targeting 141.2 million vulnerable groups in the second wave of vaccination period, which will take place from July to August 2021.
Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Vaccination of the Ministry of Health, dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi explained that this vaccination is targeted at people living in areas with a high risk of transmission and other communities using a cluster approach.
“There are three criteria with a certain age range that have a risk of death, including age over 60 years with a 19.5-fold risk, age 46-59 years with an 8.5-fold risk and age 31-45 years with a risk of two to five times the risk. four times,” said Nadia in a virtual activity entitled Knowing the New Variant of Covid-19 and Vaccine Effectiveness which was held by ANTARA, Monday (31/5/2021).
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Previously, in the first wave of the national vaccination program, the targeted groups were 1.3 million health workers in 34 provinces, 21.5 million elderly people, 17.4 million public officers.
He also explained that the Ministry of Health took steps to simplify the vaccination flow from five service desks to two service desks.
At the first table, there are at least two health workers consisting of screening officers and vaccinators to screen targets in the form of vital signs and medical history questions.
“Participants who have passed the screening can be directly given the vaccine at the first table and the officer fills in the results of the screening and vaccination,” he said.
At the second table, the officer entered data from the control paper into the Pcare, then the observation time was reduced to 15-30 minutes.
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