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He was reluctant to be vaccinated in the beginning, as go.id, as of June 26 there were 792,273 positive cases
he doubted if the vaccine is halal. But his son kept on in Jakarta, 716,838 recovered and 11,333 died.
advising him to get vaccinated. “Just get vaccinated,
you’re an old man. It’s for your health,” he said, The high cases caused many people to look for
imitating his son’s words. He eventually knew that the vaccination. Reza Ramdhanis, a resident at Ciracas,
Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) had released fatwa East Jakarta, who never thought he would want to be
regarding the halal of CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccine. vaccinated was finally hunting the vaccine centres. “I
It is also safe to use. was panicked as I hadn’t received the vaccine yet,”
he said, referring to the time when spikes in cases
Sugiman doesn’t have any congenital disease. But his appeared in his neighbourhood. “Almost every day I
job as a driver forces him to take dozens of factory heard of people died from COVID-19.”
workers from Bekasi, which make him exhausted. “I’m
possibly get infected from work,” he said. The situation made him to hunt for vaccine. He went
to many vaccination centres and registered via JAKI.
Despite the experience of getting infected with But it was only on August 4 , 2021 that he could finally
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COVID-19, he was thankful he finally had the shot so been vaccinated. “Thank God, my family and I got the
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he didn’t have fatal symptoms. Although he was filled vaccine on August 4 ,” he said.
with remorse for his wife, who didn’t have the chance
to receive the vaccine. “If only Saminah had been Vaccine hunting is not only done by the Jakarta
vaccinated, she might be still alive today,” he said, residents. Fakhrian Adi (28), a resident of Depok, West
sadly. Java, was also hunting for vaccines via JAKI app. At
first, he was doubtful that the registration only applied
Vaccine Hunt for residents of Jakarta. “I just need to submit my ID
number and finally got the shot,” he said.
Since last June, COVID-19 positivity rate in Jakarta was
increased. According to the data on corona.jakarta. gro

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