JAKARTA — The Indonesian government will prioritize Java and Bali islands for the first round of vaccination programs due to their high number of COVID-19 cases.
“Out of the 10 provinces with the most confirmed cases, most of them are in Java and Bali islands,” national vaccination program spokeswoman Siti Nadia Tarmizi said on Wednesday as quoted bytempo.co.
According to National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) data on Dec. 9, active cases in seven provinces in Java and Bali had reached 50,892, totaling 376,112.
Central Java led the tally with more than 17,000 cases, followed by Jakarta with11,700 known cases and West Java with more than 10,000 cases.
Siti Nadia said…
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