A male receives his very first dose of Sinovac vaccine at Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta throughout mass Covid-19 vaccination drive on Feb. 17,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
BY: PRIMUS DORIMULU, MARIA FATIMA BONA
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesian health authorities have started to administer coronavirus vaccine produced by state-run pharmaceutical company Bio Farma given that the second round of mass vaccination began on Wednesday.
The vaccine is manufactured at a Bio Farma factory in Bandung, West Java, under license from China’s Sinovac Biotech.
The Drug and Food Supervisory Company, of BPOM, has earlier approved the use of locally-made Sinovac vaccine.
” The emergency situation usage permission by the BPOM ensures the safety, quality and efficacy of the vaccine and it will speed up vaccination at this second round,” National Covid-19 Task Force representative Wiku Adisasmito stated on Friday.
The federal government has targeted to vaccinate 38.5 million citizens during this current drive, which concentrates on public sector workers and senior people.
The first round, which began on January 13, targeted primarily medical workers with a minimum of 1.1 million individuals immunized currently when a new round started earlier this week.
Wiku said a small percentage of medical employees have actually not gotten the vaccine for numerous factors but he anticipated them to partiicipate in this present campaign.
Free Vaccination
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Wednesday the current project is anticipated to conclude in May prior to broadening to other top priority groups in the next round.
He said the government will acquire 125 million dosages of Sinovac vaccine– either imported from China or replicated by Bio Farma– totally free distribution by the state.
Personal institutions aren’t permitted to obtain Sinovac vaccine at the meantime to prevent competition with the federal government’s complimentary vaccination program, the minister said.
” If Sinovac vaccine is offered freely, this could lead to decreased supplies of the federal government’s free vaccination program and that shouldn’t take place,” Budi stated.
Indonesia has actually tape-recorded a total of 1.25 million coronavirus cases because the break out started, with the number of active cases standing at around 160,500 since Thursday.
The infection has actually eliminated an overall of 33,969 individuals in the country.
More than 60 percent of cases and deaths have taken place in the country’s most densely-populated island of Java.
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