Jakarta – Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Thursday thanked the federal governments of Japan, Australia, and the United States of America for supplying vaccines and financial assistance to support Indonesia’s battle versus COVID-19
Indonesia has gotten 2.1 million dosages of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan, he informed a virtual press conference that ANTARA joined from Jakarta on Thursday.
” The AstraZeneca vaccines are the grant and contribution from the government of Japan. This is not the last. There will likely be another (vaccine consignment from Japan),” Sadikin said.
The Australian federal government has actually contributed 77 million Australian dollars to assist Indonesia obtain a minimum of 10 million vaccine doses through the COVID-19 Vaccines Worldwide Access (COVAX) facility, he notified.
The United States federal government has likewise assured to provide Indonesia with four million Moderna vaccines thanks to the efforts of Collaborating Maritime Affairs and Financial Investment Minister, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, he included.
Indonesia has 43 million vaccines in stock which would suffice for 30 million residents, he informed, adding that the government has been striving to raise the country’s day-to-day vaccination rate.
President Joko Widodo has set a target of enhancing Indonesia’s everyday vaccination rate to one million doses by July this year, Sadikin noted.
The targeted day-to-day vaccination rate has been reached, with the federal government administering 1.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of June 26, 2021 alone with the aid of the Indonesian military and cops, city governments, and state and personal enterprises, he included.
The COVID-19 pandemic at first struck the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019 and consequently spread across the globe, consisting of to countries in the Asia-Pacific area.
The Indonesian federal government announced the nation’s very first confirmed cases on March 2, 2020.
Since then, the central and local federal governments have aimed persistently to flatten the country’s coronavirus curve by using healthcare procedures and public activity limitations.
As part of the efforts to win the fight versus COVID-19, the Indonesian government has actually also been performing an across the country vaccination program to contain infections since January 13, 2021.
Since June 20, 2021, Indonesia has received 104,728,400 COVID-19 vaccines, comprising 94.5 million Sinovac vaccines, 8.228 million AstraZeneca vaccines, and 2 million Sinopharm vaccines. (INE)
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