Jakarta – Indonesia has actually received an extra 10 million dosages of Sinovac bulk vaccines in the 17 th shipment that arrived in the Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten province on Sunday.
” Today we got another 10 million bulk vaccines, which indicates that 91 million doses have actually arrived in the nation, to produce COVID-19 vaccine,” stated Secretary-General of the Ministry of Health Oscar Primadi in a virtual press conference at Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Sunday.
Primadi stressed that the federal government is constantly present to secure hundreds of countless doses of the COVID-19 vaccine needed to perform the vaccination program for1815 million Indonesians targeted to get the vaccine.
The procurement is performed through different channels consisting of bilateral efforts while continuing to check out with domestic development.
” With this arrival, we continue to make efforts to disperse and after that carry out a vaccination program so that it runs well,” he stated.
He ensured that the vaccines utilized in the COVID-19 vaccination program had actually passed tests to ensure their security, which way, an emergency situation usage permission might be issued by the Food and Drug Administration (BPOM).
According to data from the Ministry of Health, a total of 104,728,400 dosages of vaccine have actually been received by Indonesia since June 20,2021 With 94,500,000 dosages being produced by Sinovac, 8,228,000 dosages from AstraZeneca, and 2,000,000 doses from Sinopharm.
On the other hand, since Saturday (19/ 6), a total of 12.2 million people had actually gotten a complete dose of the vaccine, with 22.8 million people receiving the very first dose.
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