Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - COVID-19 vaccination program in the City of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, is kept being intensified and the Head of the Health Office Machli Riyadi declared that it has reached 62 percent.
"To be precise 62.45 percent of the target was achieved for the first vaccine dose," he said here on Sunday.
Machli Riyadi expressed his appreciation for OJK and BCA for assisting the city government in the mass vaccination activities at 0 Kilometer park in front of the former South Kalimantan governor's office that day.
The agency also held several mass vaccination activities, such as "gebyar masjid bervaksin" at mosques every Friday. In addition at the Banjarmasin Cathedral Church, at the markets, and other places.
"Every day until November 10, 2021, there will be mass vaccination. We have scheduled at 13 points," he said.
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The average target achieved by each mass vaccination is 500 people.
"The mayor asked for 75 percent vaccination achievement by November 12, 2021," said Machli.
I will coincide with the Health Day commemoration, he said, that Banjarmasin City will achieve herd immunity that the residents of the city will be avoided from the threat of wave 3 with the issue that there will be a new variant of COVID-19.
"The target of COVID-19 vaccination in Banjarmasin City is 516,000," he said.
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