inp.polri.go.id - Serang. Chief of Indonesian National Police, Police General Listyo Sigit Prabowo; Commander of Armed Forces, Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto; Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin; and Chief of National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB), Lieutenant General Ganip Warsito visit mass vaccination event in Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University Campus (Untirta), Serang, Banten province, that targets 4,000 people to be vaccinated, on Sunday (18/07/21).
Chief of Police explained that rising national new Covid-19 cases that reached more than 50,000 a day must be responded to by tougher measures to push it down.
"From our evaluation, obedience and discipline level of the people in certain regions of Banten is on 90%. However, three regions are below 90%, so I think an improvement is needed", the Chief of Police said.
Former Chief of Banten Regional Police also said that the government is trying its best to accelerate herd immunity through the vaccination acceleration programme.
"We saw Banten as the region close to the capital that still 14% on vaccination rate, so an acceleration effort on vaccination is needed. Therefore, in the upcoming weeks, Armed Forces-Police will work together to improve vaccination rate in Banten", Chief of Police said.