Jakarta. The Indonesian federal government intends to immunize over 200 million residents to eliminate Covid-19, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo tweeted on Tuesday.
Indonesia has actually administered around 64 million doses of vaccine in the last 6 months, with 18.7 million people fully immunized to date.
Regardless of being amongst top global performers in the overall number of doses, Indonesia sees less than 10 percent of its 272 million population fully immunized up until now.
” In order to attain population immunity, we require to vaccinate around 208 million citizens, consisting of those aged in between 12 and 17 years,” the president wrote.
His tweet appeared hours after the country reached another sad milestone with daily Covid-19 death toll going beyond the 2,000 mark for the first time since the outbreak began.
The National Authorities and the Indonesian Military (TNI) have actually been included to include the rate on vaccination drive with a goal of reaching 2 million doses per day starting next month.
Indonesia has actually been using primarily vaccine established by China’s Sinovac Biotech, which also approves license to state-run pharmaceutical business Bio Farma for reproduction at its factory in Bandung, West Java.
Previously in the day, the federal government received Sinovac’s half-finished vaccine equivalent to 21 million doses.
It was the 30 th delivery of vaccine from various foreign sources, which likewise consist of UN-approved international vaccine donor Covax, the United States, Japan and China.
” The government will continue obtaining vaccines from numerous readily available sources to make sure that we have enough supplies to fulfill vaccination target,” Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said in a video conference.
He said all the vaccines acquired by the federal government must get authorization for usage from the Drug and Food Supervisory Firm (BPOM) and the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization. Indonesia took just vaccines authorized by the World Health Organization, he added.
” The government is obliged to make sure the safety, quality and efficacy of all kinds of vaccine we get,” Airlangga stated.
Because teens were enabled to get the shot early this month, a minimum of 718,000 kids have actually received one dosage of the vaccine, he said.
” I need to highlight that vaccination is among government’s strategies to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Together with vacination, the general public requirement to be disciplined in complying with health protocols, using masks, observing social distancing and preserving great hygiene,” Airlangga said.
” I hope that cooperation from all parties for the prevention of Covid-19, especially with regard to the vaccination program, can grow stronger so that our nation can control the pandemic, individuals can once again be healthy and the economy can recuperate.”
