A woman shields herself from the sun with an umbrella while waiting her rely on refill oxygen tank on Jalan Minangkabau in South Jakarta on July 15,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
Jakarta. The United Kingdom has actually exposed a commitment to contribute $1 million worth of important health care equipment to Indonesia, where brand-new Covid-19 cases and deaths are rising due to the extremely contagious Delta variation.
The donation will be utilized to purchase oxygen concentrators which will be used to provide lifesaving treatment to those most in requirement, the UK Embassy in Jakarta said in a statement on Wednesday.
The pledge follows the arrival of the very first contribution of 620,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from the UK to Indonesia on Monday.
” As a close friend and partner, we stand with Indonesia in their fight versus COVID-19,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was estimated as stating.
” We are sharing 1 million vaccines and medical devices to support Indonesia’s response and healing from the pandemic. Nobody is safe until we are all safe.”
Indonesia has seen a significant rise in newly cases since late June while the day-to-day death toll likewise started to top 1,000 in mid-July.
The contribution will reinforce the UK and Indonesia’s wider health collaboration in areas such as vaccine development and genomic sequencing, the embassy stated.
” As Foreign Minister Ibu Retno Marsudi has said, the only method to exit this pandemic is through cooperation. This health care equipment can assist those in requirement, conserve lives and speed up Indonesia’s healing,” Deputy British Ambassador to Indonesia Rob Fenn said.
According to the embassy, the UK is the fourth biggest bilateral donor to international vaccine donor Covax, having actually given $548 million. Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed last month that the UK would provide 100 million vaccine dosages to Covax and nations that a lot of require them over the next year.
In addition to the doses offered through Covax, the UK has agreed that over 4 million doses will be readily available to be shared bilaterally by the end of September with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Kenya and commonwealth countries in the Caribbean.
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