Jakarta – AstraZeneca had actually sent 14.7 million doses from the total 50 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Indonesia in accordance with the offer in between Indonesia and AstraZeneca.
” We are ready to continue our partnership with the Indonesian government and associated stakeholders to help the country recuperate from COVID-19,” AstraZeneca President Director Sewhan Chon noted in his press release, on Friday.
Chon validated that by Friday, AstraZeneca had actually rolled out another one million dosages of vaccine to Indonesia. Indonesia had until now gotten over 141 million dosages of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The shipment contributed to the millions of dosages of the AstraZeneca vaccine that Indonesia had actually received through COVID-19 Vaccines Global Gain Access To (COVAX) and contributions from various nations.
” We had actually sent out around 14 million doses of the vaccine and will present another million dosages to meet our handle Indonesia through COVAX or from non-profit donation,” he mentioned.
The offer in between Indonesia and AstraZeneca aims to support the National Immunization Program handled by the Ministry of Health in order to expedite the progress in vaccination in Indonesia. The government is needed to accelerate vaccination to build herd immunity in the middle of a spike in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia.
The president director noted that AstraZeneca had actually continued to meet vaccine requirements worldwide through COVAX, non-profit contributions, and personal offers in between several countries.
AstraZeneca was the first international pharmaceutical company to have actually signed up with COVAX in June 2020 and provided over 90 percent of the vaccines that COVAX dispersed globally.
Currently, AstraZeneca has delivered almost 45 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to all ASEAN countries and more than 700 million doses to 170 countries worldwide.
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