Jakarta – The Pfizer vaccine can be utilized for people aged above 12 in the nation, representative for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, has stated.
” The Pfizer vaccine can be utilized for individuals aged 12 years and over and city governments who will receive Pfizer vaccine allotments are asked to be able to administer them right away so that people in their areas can be safeguarded and increase the protection of the vaccination program,” he said at an online press conference here on Thursday.
On Thursday (August 19), the Indonesian federal government got 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, Adisasmito said.
The Drug and Food Control Company (BPOM) had actually issued Emergency-Use of Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer vaccine in July 2021.
According to BPOM, the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine is 100 percent for the 12-15 year age group and 95.5 percent for those aged 16 years and above.
” In addition to the Pfizer vaccines, today the federal government also received 450 thousand dosages of the AstraZeneca vaccine through a bilateral plan,” Adisasmito informed on Thursday.
The representative stated he hoped that the arrival of the vaccines would speed up the nationwide vaccination program so more individuals in the country could get vaccinated.
In a quote to stem the spread of COVID-19 and build herd immunity, the Indonesian federal government had actually launched an across the country vaccination program on January 13, 2021, with President Joko Widodo becoming the country’s very first vaccine recipient.
04 percent of the target population) have received the very first vaccine dose and 30,590,045 people (1469 percent of the target population) have actually received the second dose of the vaccine, according to information from the Ministry of Health.
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