Sorong City Police Pursuit of Covid-19 Vaccination Targets for Children

Considering that vaccination achievement for school children is still low, the Sorong City Police continue to intensify the Covid 19 vaccination, especially for children. By opening a vaccination booth in the center of the crowd.

One of them is a vaccination booth in the Taman Sorong City area of Sorong City, from Saturday afternoon to evening it is still crowded with the general public as well as school-age children. This activity was intentionally carried out on Saturdays, to make it easier for children to get Covid 19 vaccination services.

Based on data on the lowest vaccination achievement in the city of Sorong, there were children aged 6 to 11 years, where the first dose only reached 25.9 percent and the second dose 9.9 percent. As for the elderly, the first dose reached 33.3 percent and the second dose was 26.8 percent and for the third dose it only reached 2.5 percent.

Therefore, the police continue to encourage the achievement of vaccinations for children aged 6 to 11 years and also the elderly. In fact, every way is done, one of which is by providing lottery prizes and basic necessities for those who have just received the first dose of vaccination.

This vaccination activity will continue to be carried out until the vaccination target of Sorong City reaches 70 percent, because so far the achievement of Sorong City's vaccination for the first dose has only reached 67.2 percent, the second dose has reached 49.2 percent and the third dose has reached 3.7 percent.

SOURCE: https://www.kompas.tv/article/274176/polres-sorong-kota-kejar-target-vaccination-covid-19-bagi-anak