The Provincial Government of Bali, through the Tourism Office, has opened online registration for tourism workers to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.
The head of Bali Tourism Agency, Putu Astawa confirmed that he has published the online application form for tourism workers to register. “The open registration starts from Monday, Feb 22nd to Sunday, Feb 28th, 2021,” said Astawa on Tuesday (23/2).
Astawa said that the program was initiated during the last virtual meeting with several including Tourism Ministry, Bali Tourism Agencies, and the Indonesian Tourism Industry Federation (GIPI) on Monday (22/2).
In the meeting, continued Astawa, it was also agreed that the data collected will be directly coordinated with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy.
“This data will later be used as material to request the Ministry of Health to grant the vaccine supply. And this follows a request from the deputy strategic policy of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia. That they will fight for these tourism workers to get vaccines,” he explained.
Astawa is optimistic that the government could distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to at least 1.2 million tourism workers in Bali as people can easily register themselves through an official website www.dispardabali-vaksin.com.
“There will be a chance where we can extend the registration period if necessary in order to reach more people to join this program, so we will continue evaluating on a daily basis,” Astawa added.
He also admitted that based on the response, many people were enthusiastic about registering.
Astawa said that 10,500 tourism workers have registered for vaccination within the first two days. “Since we posted the online registration yesterday, we already receive 10,500 applications,” Astawa said.
All the applications will be sent to the Health Ministry before the vaccination process begins. “I think the vaccine is the most important thing to do before the border reopens, so we could earn the trust and build the confidence of the international travelers” Astawa concluded.
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Wayan Bo
Sunday 28th of February 2021
At least it's remarkable how large quantities of vaccines "rich country's" have ordered, for example Canada with over 300 millions, like they want to vaccinate all there pats too, including dogs cats and perhaps birds. At the same time poor country's are getting nothing or nearly nothing.
Randy
Tuesday 2nd of March 2021
@J West, WHO has also warned about hoarding vaccine supplies by greedy countries...but no foreign govt listened. The EU including Japan is behind the rollout of vaccines. Let alone in the US it has been slow real slow.
J West
Monday 1st of March 2021
@Wayan Bo, Sorry you don't understand the Sleaze Politics of " Liberal Party by Justin Trudeau Canada." People in Canada have received no vaccine. Tens of thousands have died. It's all a sham campaign by a corrupt government to hide it's incompetance.