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The government is preparing priority targets for COVID-19 vaccination recipients ranging from medical personnel to the poor receiving BPJS Health contribution assistance.

"First in the front line consisting of medical and paramedics, health services, including the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and police and legal officers, around 3.5 million people," said the Head of the COVID-19 Handling Team and National Economic Recovery (PC-PEN) Airlangga Hartarto in an online press conference, in Jakarta, Monday.

Then community leaders, religious leaders, to five million regional apparatus, educators ranging from Early Childhood Education (PAUD), Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior High School to lecturers of private and state universities up to 4.3 million people.

Furthermore, the central and regional government officials, and up to 2.3 million legislative people and BPJS Health Contribution Assistance Recipients are 96 million people with a total of 102 million people.

In addition, continued Airlangga Hartarto, the target recipients of vaccination are people aged 19-59 years so that the total number of people reaches 160 million people.

We will give the vaccination in two doses so that the total need for vaccine reaches 320 million doses of vaccine.

Apart from the government, continued Airlangga Hartarto, we will also carry out vaccination by companies that cooperate for independent vaccination.

"So there are two steps, namely given the government and the rest are independent vaccines, all controlled by the Ministry of Health and Bio Farma based on the Presidential Decree that has been signed by the President," said Airlangga who is also the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs.

Vaccination activities, he continued, cannot be done one at a time, but we estimate it that in stages until 2022, it will also involve 11 thousand health centers throughout Indonesia. (Antaranews)