Jakarta: The distribution of the third dose of covid-19 vaccine for health workers and health support personnel continues to increase. More than 640 thousand health workers have received booster vaccinations.
"The third dose of vaccination for health workers is 43.61 percent or 640.532 peoples," wrote a statement on the vaccine.kemkes.go.id page, quoted on Wednesday, September 1, 2021.
The total target of vaccination for this group is 1.468.764 peoples. Vaccines are given to health workers who have received the first and second doses.
Booster vaccination for health workers is regulated in the Circular Letter of the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control Number: HK.02.01/1/1919/2021. The government does not allow groups outside of health workers to be injected with the third dose of vaccine.
The third dose of vaccine for health workers uses the Moderna brand. The reason is that Moderna has a higher efficacy than the current vaccine brand.
The booster vaccine will still pay attention to the health condition of the vaccination target. If you have allergies because you cannot get a vaccine with an mRNA platform, the target of vaccination can use the same type of vaccine with the first and second doses.
Moderna vaccine used as a booster is mRNA-1273. The injection is done intramuscularly with a dose of 0.5 ml in one dose.
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