Jakarta The federal government has chosen to begin vaccination versus Covid-19 for kids aged 6–11 years tomorrow, ten days earlier than the initial schedule, Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, the interim director general of illness prevention and control at the Ministry of Health, said on Monday.
The move would secure 265 million children against a disease that has actually eliminated near to 144,000 individuals in Indonesia, according to the ministry data. Children and teens aged 6–18 years of ages represented about 0.5 percent of the deaths.
Up until today, the federal government had only included teenagers in between 12 and 18 years old in its free vaccination program. It is waiting for a recommendation from the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (Itagi) relating to vaccines safety for more youthful children.
Maxi stated on Monday that the ministry had actually received the suggestion from Itagi, greenlighting the vaccination for kids aged 6 to 11 years.
” We hope that on Tuesday there will be kick-offs in a number of locations that we will determine, and after that slowly until next year, we will vaccinate all children aged 6 to 11 years,” Maxi stated.
” This is since we wish to accelerate the vaccination of all locals in Indonesia and likewise avoid the transmission of Covid-19,” he said.
At first, the ministry will perform vaccination for kids in districts or cities that had actually delivered the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to 70 percent of the vaccination targets and 60 percent of their senior population.
Maxi stated that 106 districts or cities in Banten, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, East Kalimantan, Riau Islands, West Nusa Tenggara, North Sulawesi, and Bali had met these requirements. He said about 8.8 million children residing in the eligible regions were in line for vaccination utilizing the Sinovac vaccine.
Vaccination for children is provided two times with an interval of a minimum of 28 days.
” There are 6.4 million doses in December. Then in January 2022, there will be an extra Sinovac vaccine, so [vaccination for children] will not be cut off,” Maxi stated.
Starting next year, Sinovac would just be prioritized for children with two doses with a period of at least 28 days, he stated. The vaccine has actually ended up being Indonesia’s many desired jab due to its lack of side-effect.
Maxi stated vaccinations could be performed in public health centers, medical facilities, or other healthcare centers, both federal government and personal, consisting of vaccination service posts and vaccination centers in schools and orphanages.
