After the Covid-19 Vaccine Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Covid-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery (PEN) Executive Director Erick Thohir said that after being injected with the Covid-19 vaccine, that doesn’t mean that people can ignore health protocols.

This is because the Covid-19 candidate vaccine currently being developed is time constrained.

This means that people who have been injected with the vaccine will be immune to the corona virus in just a period of six months to two years.

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“Having been immunized or vaccinated does not mean that we are healthy forever, unaffected by (Covid-19) forever, therefore the protocol for Covid-19 must continue,” Erick said in a virtual press conference on Thursday ( 3/9/2020).

Erick added that community discipline is needed to deal with this Covid-19 pandemic. On that basis, he asked the public not to underestimate the health protocol.

“It is exhausting, but this is a new part of life that we have to be responsible for, especially if we love ourselves and our families,” said the man who is also a minister at BUMN.

Indonesia, through PT Bio Farma, is known to be developing a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Sinovac of China. Sinovac is currently conducting phase three clinical trials in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

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In addition to Sinovac, Indonesia is also collaborating on the Covid-19 vaccine with a company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), G42. For the G42, it conducted its own clinical trials in the UAE.

Indonesia has sent a team to the UAE to oversee clinical trials.

If the clinical trial process goes smoothly, the goal is for there to be a mass immunization for the Indonesian people by early 2021.