inp.polri.go.id – Pekanbaru. Riau Regional Police is redistributing vaccines. For now, the mass vaccination event is held at Universitas Riau (Unri)campus in Panam Pekanbaru on Tuesday morning (14/9/2021). Two thousand four hundred vaccine doses are provided and targeting academics, students, and residents around the campus.
The mass vaccination in Unri campus was attended by Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police, Police Brigadier General Tabana Bangun, accompanied by Primary Officials of Riau Regional Police, rector, and campus board. The event was located in the Faculty of Social and Political Science of Unri Panam. Since the morning, the vaccination participants have arrived orderly and looked enthusiastic and dominated by students.
Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police, Police Brigadier General Tabana Bangun, said that the mass vaccination event is a collaboration between Regional Police and Unri. The same thing was also conducted by Police with other stakeholders to accelerate vaccination target achievement to form herd immunity so the Covid-19 transmission number could be suppressed.
“This is our common effort in handling Covid-19 in Riau, especially for the academics, students, and residents around the Unri campus. We thanked the academicians for the event organisation”, Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police said.
Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police explained that the vaccination acceleration to the public, including the students, is made to form herd immunity.
“We hope that (herd immunity) to be achieved at the community level. The vaccination also cooperation between stakeholders, not only campus”, Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police said.
The one-star general said that Covid-19 also affected education, including university, in which students cannot attend offline learning. Therefore, vaccination acceleration is essential to support campus learning.
“The normal education in university has been halted. Therefore, vaccination is required to shape herd immunity in campus so that offline activities could normally run again”, Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police said.
He believed that vaccination acceleration had affected the Covid-19 transmission rate, which in the last several weeks saw the new positive Covid-19 cases is steadying below 100 people per day.
“Until today, Riau recorded less than 100 new cases. We are taking the effort and also pray so that Riau could minimalise Covid spreading and activities could normally run again”, Deputy Chief of Riau Regional Police hoped.
