Jakarta – The Indonesian government has received an addition of 313,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, representative for COVID-19 Vaccination, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, stated
The vaccine got to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang City, Banten Province, on Saturday at 18.00 p.m. regional time, she said when called on Sunday,
With the addition of 313,100 doses, Indonesia has actually gotten an overall of 92.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, both in ready-to use and bulk types.
” The arrival of AstraZeneca vaccine from the Covax Center is the outcome of the effort of the Indonesian Government, which considering that October 2020 has been seeking multilateral cooperation for COVID-19 Covax, a worldwide effort targeted at acquiring equal access to the COVID-19 vaccine,” she said.
” Through the GAVI Covax Advance Market Commitment system, Indonesia gets a COVID-19 vaccine quota at three to 20 percent of its population,” she added.
She stated the availability of the vaccine was crucial in the effort to speed up the nationwide vaccination program.
Overall, Indonesia has gotten a total of 3 million dosages of completed vaccine from Sinovac, 6.7 million dosages of ended up vaccine from AstraZeneca, one million doses of finished vaccine from Sinopharm, and 81.5 million doses of semi-finished vaccine from Sinovac.
Tarmizi highlighted that the federal government continues to enhance vaccination services to reach approximately one million people daily starting in June 2021, in order to build herd immunity soon.
To that end, the government has actually executed a nationwide vaccination program for health employees, public service workers, and the elderly in addition to individuals aged 50 years and above.
Since June 4, 2021, 17.3 million individuals have gotten the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 11.1 countless them have been injected with the 2nd dosage of COVID-19 vaccine.
In the meantime, the independent vaccination program has also been performed and since May 30, 2021, it has reached 49 thousand employees from 36 business entities or legal entities.
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