Airport workers unload Moderna Covid-19 vaccines from a Singapore Airlines aircraft at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, December 26,2021 (Image thanks to the Information and Interaction Ministry)
BY: THE JAKARTA WORLD
DECEMBER 26, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesia got almost 9 million dosages of the Covid-19 vaccine from the United States and several European countries on Sunday alone, marking the most significant shipment of vaccine donation in a single day.
” All the vaccines that we got today were donated by our pals through Covax,” Health Ministry spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi stated, describing the UN-supported worldwide vaccine-sharing plan.
Those vaccines were transferred in four freight airplanes, consisting of 1.42 million Moderna dosages contributed by France, another 3.32 million doses from the United States, and 4.24 million AstraZeneca doses from Germany and Greece, according to Health Ministry information.
” The Indonesian government thanks to the governments of France, Germany, the United States, and Greece for those shipments,” Siti said.
Indonesia has administered 267.5 million dosages of the Covid-19 vaccine given that the mass shot started in January.
About 53 percent of the target population, comparable to 110.6 million people, have actually been totally immunized versus Covid-19 while 87 percent of registered health workers have actually received a booster shot.
The federal government started to immunize children aged 6 or above recently, suggesting that the target population will increase from the formerly mentioned at 208 million people.
Of all 34 provinces, 9 have accomplished a vaccination rate above the nationwide average. Jakarta is the only province where over 100 percent of the target population are totally immunized, with Bali coming close at 90.7 percent.
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