Elderly Vaccination Rate in Halmahera Selatan, North Maluku, Highest in the Province (Thursday, February 17, 2022)

The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average vaccination rate of 61.8 percent for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine among elderly individuals in North Maluku, based on KTP (Indonesian ID card) data updated on Thursday, February 17, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 66.36 percent.

South Halmahera is the district with the highest first-dose vaccination rate among the elderly based on KTP data, reaching 104.63 percent. The first-dose vaccination rate in this district shows improvement compared to the previous week, which recorded 104.62 percent.

A similar trend is observed in West Halmahera, which recorded an 81.24 percent first-dose vaccination rate among the elderly based on KTP data. This is also higher than the previous week's figure of 80.92 percent. Following this is Morotai Island, another district in North Maluku province, which recorded a 76.19 percent first-dose vaccination rate among the elderly based on KTP data.

East Halmahera and North Halmahera follow with first-dose vaccination rates of 73.05 percent and 69.93 percent, respectively, among the elderly based on KTP data.

Nationally, the average first-dose vaccination rate among the elderly based on KTP data across the 34 provinces is currently on an upward trend compared to the previous week, which stood at 66.06 percent.