IDNEWSNOW.COM, Jakarta – Indonesia received the 26 th batch of Covid-19 vaccines on Friday early morning, July16 This time, the government obtained 1,041,400 dosages of vaccines from AstraZeneca.
” Today we received the 26 th batch of vaccines, which is 1,041,400 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca. The overall vaccine we have actually gotten as per this morning is 141,315,880 doses,” the Health Ministry’s secretary basic Oscar Primadi said on Friday, July 16.
The vaccine arrival becomes part of an offer between AstraZeneca and the Indonesian federal government for the delivery of 50 million dosages of vaccine directly to Indonesia.
The arrival of this batch is expected to accelerate Indonesia’s vaccine rollout and expand the scope, so that the target of injecting 2 million vaccines each day in August can be accomplished.
The Indonesian federal government continues to prompt the general public to get inoculated to attain herd immunity as quickly as possible and suppress the pandemic. “Let’s rush with vaccinations to go much faster towards herd resistance,” Oscar stated.
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