How to check if you are a potential recipient of the free Covid-19 vaccine

Source: Kompas.com | Editor: I knew laoli

KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. The government plans to carry out a free Covid-19 vaccination starting in January 2021. Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the vaccinations would be carried out in stages.

For the first phase, 1.3 million health workers in 34 provinces of the country will be vaccinated.

“These are the vanguard, the most important people during the pandemic of the Covid-19 crisis,” Budi said in a press conference broadcast on YouTube by the Presidential Secretariat, on Tuesday (12/29/2020).

Now, health workers and the community can easily verify their status in the vaccination program. Checks can be done through the official government app, namely PeduliL Protects.

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The application can be downloaded through the Google Play Store for Android users or the App Store for iOS users.

In addition to using the application, verification can also be done through the site https: // pedulil Protected.id.

Through this site, people only need to enter their identification number (NIK) in the “check your NIK status in the vaccination program here”. Make sure to fill in the NIK that matches your e-KTP.

After that, the status of whether the owner of the NIK is a candidate for the first stage of the Covid-19 vaccine or not will appear.

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On the site, it is said that healthcare workers who have not been registered as candidates for recipients of the first stage vaccine must fill in their personal details.

The data in question are in the form of name, NIK, address, telephone number, type of health worker and are equipped with a certificate from the head of the health service establishment explaining their status as health workers in the service establishment related health.