Six million doses of Sinovac’s bulk vaccine showed up in Indonesia

Jakarta – 6 million dosages of bulk vaccine from China’s Sinovac has actually arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten Province on Sunday, as the eighth batch of vaccine delivery to Indonesia, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said.

” Today we have actually gotten six million doses of bulk vaccine from Sinovac, China, as part of 140 million doses of bulk vaccine that we will receive in 2021,” Sadikin stated in a virtual interview on Presidential Secretariat YouTube account.

As of now Indonesia has gotten 59.5 million dosages of Sinovac bulk vaccine that could be used to produce 47 million dosages of COVID-19 vaccine by state-run vaccine maker PT Bio Farma.

Bulk vaccines are the raw product of vaccines that will be made into ready-to-use vaccines by BioFarma.

” Previously, of the overall 46 million dosages, we have dispersed 22 million dosages to all areas,” he stated.

Indonesia is anticipated to have extra 20 million doses of vaccine with the arrival of the bulk vaccine on Sunday, to fulfill need in April and May, Sadikin said.

The minister has actually gotten in touch with city governments to continue the vaccination program throughout the fasting month of Ramadhan.

” The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has actually declared that vaccination would not revoke a Muslim’s fast,” he stated.

The vaccination has actually also concentrated on seniors, due to the fact that during the Eid al-Fitr celebration people will check out the elderly.

Sadikin has actually called on the public to increase alertness and abide by the health procedures, with the spike in COVID-19 cases in some nations in Europe, Asia such as India, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and South America such as Chile and Brazil.

” The implementation of public activities restriction (PPKM) ought to not make us uninformed of the spread. Lest our effort are unproductive because we do not remain on alert,” the minister stated.

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