VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

 Indonesian President Joko Widodo is targeting to scale up COVID-19 vaccinations to cover two million people per day by August this year.

He has reiterated his request to all staff to maintain the distribution of one million vaccine doses every day until the end of July, 2021.

"I would like to express the highest appreciation for the distribution of 1.3 million vaccine doses on Saturday, June 26 (2021), exceeding the target of one million vaccinations per day that was set starting July, 2021," he said at a virtual press conference that was streamed on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube channel from Jakarta on Monday.

Widodo lauded all parties, especially the Ministry of Health, the military and police forces, the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, and private sector players who took part in the vaccination drive for their hard work, as well as the people who willingly received the shots.

He then said the vaccination target will be doubled to two million doses per day from August, 2021.

"I remind all parties to work hard to meet the target of one million vaccinations per day and to maintain it until the end of July, and we can double that for August, 2021 and reach two million doses per day," Widodo said. (Antaranews)