Jakarta – Collaborating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto exposed that the federal government, on Tuesday, got basic material supplies for 8 million dosages of COVID-19 vaccine from the Chinese biopharmaceutical business Sinovac.
” Thank God, today we can receive the raw products for eight million doses of the Sinovac-manufactured COVID-19 vaccine,” Hartarto, simultaneously Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Healing Chairperson, remarked while providing a virtual press statement from the Soekarno Hatta Airport of Tangerang here on Tuesday.
After receiving the materials, the government has actually gotten a supply of 83.9 million doses in overall of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hartarto noted that the federal government had actually continued to keep the availability of vaccine stocks to guarantee that execution of the COVID-19 vaccination runs efficiently as planned.
The government is likewise working to guarantee the security, quality, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine utilized in the nationwide vaccination program.
” Vaccines are gotten through an assessment procedure by the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NADFC),” he mentioned.
The minister additionally discussed that vaccination figures out the success of efforts to control the COVID-19 transmission.
The government prepares to immunize a minimum of 70 percent of the population, or about 181.5 million people, to accomplish herd resistance versus the disease.
Currently, the government has actually vaccinated around 24.9 million individuals with the COVID-19 vaccine.
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