Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The Provincial Government of South Kalimantan has pushed vaccination from the previous target of 38,000 to 126,000 per week to cut the transmission of COVID-19.
Head of South Kalimantan Health Agency Muslim here on Friday said that health interventions were needed to expedite the control of COVID-19, including accelerating the fulfillment of vaccination target.
"We push vaccination. We seek to add 126,000 vaccines per week, so far it is only 38 thousand per week. Hopefully, it can be met from various sources," he said.
Muslim suggested the South Kalimantan COVID-19 Task Force to go down to the field to monitor and evaluate the handling of COVID-19 in districts and cities.
In addition to vaccination, he said, it is necessary to strengthen testing, tracing, and treatment or 3T.
Hospitals, he said, must increase the availability of beds. Whereas districts and cities can increase the use of centralized isolation facilities as an effort to suppress the increase in the number of positive cases.
"There is a tendency for self-isolation to be neglected, this triggers contagion," he said.
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South Kalimantan Provincial Secretary Roy Rizali Anwar said that his party is now preparing some action plan for handling COVID-19 in the province because COVID-19 cases have not decreased as expected.
"This action plan is a follow-up to the Minister of Home Affair's instruction regarding the implementation of community activity restriction (PPKM) outside Java-Bali," he said.
Roy reminded that the handling of COVID-19 must be integrated from upstream to downstream to run optimally.
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South Kalimantan boosts vaccination, targets 126,000 per week
Minggu, 15 Agustus 2021 0:32 WIB
Coordination meeting on handling COVID-19 in South Kalimantan. (Antaranews Kalsel/Istimewa)
