Indonesia has been carrying out a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program since January 13, 2021 and it has actually been running smoothly, with no problems reported against China’s Sinovac vaccine up until now.
President Joko Widodo has received 2 vaccine dosages on January 13 and January 27, 2021, without any unfavorable reaction.
Far, 1,017,186 Indonesian health care employees out of the targeted 1,468,764 have gotten COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to information offered by the COVID-19 Dealing With Task Force on February 11, 2021.
Of the 1,017,186 health care employees who have actually received the very first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 345,605 have actually been administered their second dosage, too, it stated.
The government has actually set a target of inoculating 181,554,464 individuals, or 70 percent of the total population of Indonesia, with the aim of building herd resistance against the coronavirus.
Medical workers combating on the frontlines in the battle versus COVID-19 have been accorded concern in the vaccine program. The next targets of the vaccination program are public service officers, consisting of cops and military workers.
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State-owned vaccine producer PT Bio Farma (Persero) has actually verified that COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated for public service officers, including the Indonesian military and cops, at the end of February this year.
Everyone covered by the vaccine program will require to be administered two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This indicates that Indonesia will require 362 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate 181 million people.
Up previously, the nation has gotten 28 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine and vaccine candidate from Sinovac.
Indonesia has bought the COVID-19 vaccine from numerous sources: 125 million dosages from China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd; 100 million dosages from US-Canada’s Novavax; 100 million dosages from British AstraZeneca; 100 million doses from Germany-US Pfizer vaccine; and, 16-100 million doses of complimentary vaccines from the GAVI COVAX Center, as part of a multilateral cooperation coordinated by the WHO.
In addition, the nation is likewise establishing its indigenous vaccine, called Red and White after the nationwide flag.
The federal government has actually also created strategies to step up COVID-19 handling by introducing a massive campaign on health procedures, establishing a central seclusion center, speeding up the vaccination program, and restricting movement.
” We have to improve the method on COVID-19 handling to increase public discipline,” Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, deputy chief of the COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Healing Committee (KPC-PEN) and Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, stated during a recent online discussion here.
The federal government has three main targets in the battle against COVID-19: minimize day-to-day cases, lower mortality rate, and boost recovery rate.
To accelerate the vaccination program, the Ministry of Health is working together with the TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces) and Polri (Indonesian Authorities) to execute its double technique of performing vaccinations and contact-tracing to win the battle versus the coronavirus pandemic.
In the past, they tracked them using interrogation strategies, however now, they use screening and tracing techniques,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated.
Based on the Health Ministry’s computation, 30 tracers per 100 thousand individuals are needed for the contact-tracing procedure, and they require to be released in every town. This suggests Indonesia needs 80 thousand tracers to meet its target of vaccinating around 181 million people.
” For Indonesia’s population, around 80 thousand tracers are needed throughout all villages. We do not have such apparatus, and only the Police and the TNI have it,” Sadikin pointed out.
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The 2nd technique to win the war versus the COVID-19 pandemic is immunization, he stated.
When again, this is a war, and we have to kill the enemy, for which we require assistance from the authorities and TNI (armed force) officers,” the minister mentioned.
The Indonesian National Police has affirmed the readiness of qualified cops personnel to be deployed as COVID-19 vaccinators and tracers.
At present, the National Cops has actually prepared 13,500 health workers. Of the overall, 900 individuals have been trained as vaccinators by the Health Ministry.
” Some 12,600 other workers will be offered similar training in the future,” National Police chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, specified.
Further, about 40 thousand police personnel will be released as tracers throughout the area, Prabowo remarked.
” As an early detection step, the National Cops has also readied 40,336 workers of the Bhabinkatibmas (neighborhood policeman) in all areas to function as tracers as a preventive procedure versus the spread of the coronavirus,” the National Authorities chief stated.
He likewise advised his guys to work closely with their counterparts from the Indonesian Defence Forces (TNI) and health workers to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.
As of February 12, 2021, Indonesia has actually taped an overall of 1,201,859 validated COVID-19 cases, 1,004,117 healings, and 32,656 deaths. (INE)
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