Boxes including AstraZeneca vaccine reach Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten, on March 8,.2021 Indonesia receives 1.1 million dosages of vaccine through Covax in this first shipment.
BY: THE JAKARTA GLOBE
MARCH 08, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesia got 1.1 million dosages of AstraZeneca s Covid-19 vaccine from the global vaccine procurement program Covax on Monday afternoon.
Indonesia is amongst establishing countries entitled free of charge vaccine supply under the UN-backed plan.
It was the first Covid-19 vaccine other than China s Sinovac vaccine to arrive in the country, which has administered more than 3.3 million doses because mass inoculation drive versus coronavirus started on Jan. 13.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi stated the federal government has actually lobbied for vaccine through the international scheme considering that October last year.
The vaccine that we just received is the initial delivery from the first batch of vaccine help through this multilateral plan. Indonesia will get an overall of 11,704,800 doses of vaccine throughout the first batch, said Retno, who co-chairs the advanced market commitment engagement group at Covax.
She told a news conference at the airport that very first batch deliveries will continue until May.
Indonesia completely supports the principle of equivalent access to vaccine for all, Retno stated.
Indonesia is presently in the second phase of vaccination drive targeting necessary employees and elderly residents. The very first rollout of the vaccine targeting 1.4 million health employees has actually been completed late last month.
The government has been aggressively acquiring Covid-19 vaccine given that six months earlier and already reached supply deals on more than 300 million dosages with numerous sources.
Sinovac has actually consented to supply 125 million dosages of vaccine, a vast bulk of which will be produced by Indonesia s state-run pharmaceutical company Bio Farma.
Indonesia also purchased 50 million dosages of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.
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