On January 13, 2021, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) received the country’s very first coronavirus vaccine shot at the Merdeka Palace, marking the start of Indonesia’s mass vaccination program versus COVID-19
The following day, the vaccination program started in a number of regions throughout the nation, with the government dispersing about 3 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine. About 1.4 million healthcare employees are the main target of the program’s initial stage from January to February, 2021.
” The COVID-19 vaccination is essential for us to break the chain of coronavirus transmission and provide health protection and security for all of us, individuals of Indonesia, and to assist accelerate economic healing,” the President remarked.
The National Company for Drug and Food Control (BPOM) given emergency-use permission (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac on January 11, 2021.
According to the firm, based upon information from the third stage clinical trials in Bandung, West Java, the Sinovac vaccine has actually been discovered 65.3- percent effective, consequently fulfilling the World Health Company (WHO) threshold of 50 percent.
The vaccination program has begun, President Widodo has actually urged Indonesians to continue observing health procedures strictly, such as using masks, cleaning hands with soap often, and keeping social distancing.
In reality, the Indonesian government has actually decided to extend constraints on the movement of people in Java and Bali by another fortnight from January 26 to February 8,2021 The restrictions were earlier enforced from January 11-25
” Based on the examination, the President has actually ordered an extension of constraints on the motion of individuals (by another 2 weeks) from January 26 to February 8 (2021),” Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, said at an online press conference on January 21, 2021, following a cabinet conference held to evaluate the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Under the new rules, shopping centers and shopping malls will stay open till 8 p.m. The variety of workers working from home need to make up 75 percent of the overall workers at a business, restaurants have actually been allowed to use at a lot of 25 percent of their seating capacity for dine-in visitors, and the number of worshippers at locations of worship have been capped at 50 percent of the overall capacity.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Health has actually asked medical facilities across Indonesia to transform 40 percent of their health service capacity for COVID-19 treatment, and to convert 25 percent of ICU space capacity to provide ICU services to COVID-19 inpatients.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has issued a circular to all health centers on the conversion of health services for COVID-19 handling, the ministry’s director general of health services, Abdul Kadir, said on January 22, 2021.
” This demand is not only for government-owned health centers, however also for all health centers, whether they are regional public hospitals, TNI (armed force) and Polri (Police) health centers, BUMN (state-owned) healthcare facilities, or public healthcare facilities,” he added.
The decision has been taken owing to a spike in COVID-19 cases across Indonesia, which has actually burdened hospitals dealing with coronavirus patients
The existing level of healthcare facility bed usage for COVID-19 patients has actually reached around 64.83 percent nationally. Of approximately 81 thousand inpatient spaces, independent isolation rooms, and ICU spaces for COVID-19 patients, around 52 thousand have been filled.
In some areas, especially those in the red zones, the occupancy rate of inpatient rooms for COVID-19 clients has reached between 80 percent and 89 percent. In Tangerang district, about 90 percent of healthcare facility beds are presently occupied by COVID-19 clients.
In Jakarta, the occupancy rate of inpatient spaces has actually reached 82 percent. At the Emergency Situation Medical Facility in Wisma Atlet, Jakarta, which just handles COVID-19 cases, more than 80 percent of spaces are presently occupied.
A number of media reports have, nevertheless, connected the boost in COVID-19 cases in several areas, such as Jember (East Java), South Bangka (Bangka Belitung) and North Sulawesi, to the simultaneous regional head elections (pilkada) on December 9, 2020, which were held under rigorous health procedures.
Indonesia on January 22, 2021 added 13,632 COVID-19 infections over a single day, bringing the tally to 965,283, while the death toll reached 27,453 The greatest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia was recorded at 14,224, and was reported on January 16, 2021.
This indicates an over twofold boost, or to be accurate 122 percent,” Doni Monardo, chief of the Indonesian Task Force for COVID-19 Handling, said just recently.
Following the spike in cases, the government, in line with President Widodo’s instructions, has increased the accessibility of health centers, ICU, and seclusion rooms, he stated.
Nevertheless, such efforts would be sufficient only if supported by the people and city governments in using health protocols strictly to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission, Monardo highlighted.
” I urge the whole nation to increase adherence to health procedures considering that it is the key to breaking the chain of COVID-19 transmission,” he included. (INE)
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