Indonesia receives delivery of Covid-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical business Sinovac and Sinopharm at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten, on April 30,2021 (Beritasatu Image/ Emral Firdiansyah)
BY: THE JAKARTA GLOBE
MAY 19, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesia has reached a dedication for the supply of 15 million dosages of Covid-19 vaccine established by China National Pharmaceutical Group or Sinopharm, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization released Interim suggestions for the global use of Sinopharm vaccine.
The federal government has actually selected Sinopharm and Cansino vaccine, also from China, for vaccination project under effort from the private sector, known as “gotong royong” (shared works) program.
The program brought in more than 22,700 companies who have accepted acquire and distribute Covid-19 vaccine for their own employees without charge.
” For the gotong royong vaccination campaign, we choose Sinopharm and CanSino. The good news is we have secured a supply dedication from Sinopharm for 15 million doses to cover 7.5 million individuals till December,” State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir was priced estimate by Antara news agency as saying.
He said his office is appealing for another 5 million dosages from CanSino, which requires just one shot per person.
” We do not eliminate cooperation with other vaccine producers from Europe, the United States or other nations,” Erick said.
Indonesia already received 420,000 Sinopharm dosages that allowed the gotong royong program to start on Tuesday.
As for the state-sponsored vaccination drive, the federal government has chosen Chinese-made Sinovac and UK’s AstraZeneca vaccines.
Vaccine procurement for both personal and state programs is coordinated by a federal government team to avoid competitors and black market sales.
According to the WHO, Sinopharm vaccine is “a suspended vaccine with an adjuvant that is regularly used in many other vaccines with a documented great security profile, including in pregnant ladies”.
Nevertheless, the vaccine is not recommended for persons younger than 18 years of age, pending the outcomes of further research studies because age.
” A large multi-country Stage 3 trial has shown that 2 doses, administered at a period of 21 days, have an effectiveness of 79 percent versus symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 [the virus that causes Covid-10] infection 14 or more days after the 2nd dosage. Vaccine efficacy against hospitalization was 79 percent,” the WHO stated on its site.
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