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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Covid-19 vaccine finally arrived in Indonesia on Sunday night (12/6/2020). The 1.2 million doses of the vaccine are the first of a total of 40 million vaccines ordered from the Chinese company Sinovac.
Foreign Minister (Menlu) Retno Marsudi shared his diplomatic stories at a press conference that was held virtually on Monday (7/12/2020). He said it all started from August 2020, when the government opened a communication tap to vaccine manufacturers in China, such as Sinovac and Sinopharm.
“In August 2020, by the Minister of BUMN, I was assigned open access to cooperation with vaccine developers, including Sinovac and Sinopharm,” Retno said.
In addition, he also revealed that the progress of the talks with Sinovac, assisted by the Chinese authorities, was very good. Therefore, he thanked the Chinese government and the Indonesian Embassy in Beijing.
“For cooperation with Sinovac, we continued to carry out intensive coordination for several weeks with the authorities of the People’s Republic of China (People’s Republic of China), especially with the state council of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi. the last two weeks, communication with the authorities of the People’s Republic of China was not carried out day by day, but hourly, hourly, “he said.
“So this time, let me on behalf of the government convey my appreciation to the government and authorities of the People’s Republic of China who have provided good cooperation so far.”
In a long time on Youtube of the Secretariat of the Presidency last night, the arrival of the vaccine was broadcast LIVE. The vaccine is transported by an aircraft of the airline PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk (GIAA), a Boeing 777-300ER type aircraft.
Vaccines are shipped using a special container labeled “ENVIROTAINER” coded RAP81179PC. Several officers were seen spraying the newcomers’ counter.
In future developments, Retno also said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to communicate intensively and openly in obtaining vaccines that were worked on multilaterally.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in constant communication with Geneva for the procurement of multilateral vaccines. It is not known that Indonesia is one of the 92 COVAX AMC countries that will receive vaccines from 3 to 20% of the population of the COVAXGavi facility,” he said. .
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