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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Minister of Public Companies (BUMN) and the president of the Committee for the Management of Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery (PEN), Erick Thohir, said that the price of the Covid-19 vaccine depends on the seller.

“The dynamic price is high, it depends on each seller, it is not me, but the seller. Therefore, we have to make the red and white vaccine so that if other countries want to buy vaccines we will set the price ”, said Erick. Between, Saturday (9/5/2020).

However, he said the quality of the vaccines remained the same even though there were differences in price.

“So if you ask about vaccines, why is there $ 5, $ 8, $ 20? If you say it’s for quality? Not really, because everything is fine, it was the third clinical trial,” Erick said.

According to him, the difference in the price of the corona vaccine could be due to a high discovery cost or a low production capacity.

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Erick reported that the administration of the vaccine was carried out in two schemes, namely, government subsidies and independent.

“Is it when vaccines are financial aid from the government? Yes, not really. The state is there for the people. The government will make it free for those who need it, including doctors and nurses based on the data,” Erick said.

For independent vaccines, he continued, his party has reached out to businessmen to help maintain state finances.

“We met with Kadin, they should not feel blackmailed. I ask the businessmen to become independent parties,” he said.

Free and paid

He said that the vaccination plan was carried out with two schemes of how to get the Covid-19 vaccine from the government, namely through government assistance and vaccines independently or paid for.

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“But that does not mean that the payer comes before free, no. Then there will be synchronization of the data programming, so it is not twisted as if the government is looking for money, but the government has it for free,” said Erick .

Earlier, Erick Thohir said that the price of the Covid-19 vaccine for one person was around 25-30 US dollars or 366,500 rupees-439,800 rupees (exchange rate 14,660 rupees).

“The price of this vaccine for one person, twice the injection costs roughly $ 25 to $ 30, but this is Bio Farma again recalculating,” Erick said during a joint working meeting with House Commission VI in Jakarta. , on Thursday (8/27/2020). .

Erick had revealed that Bio Farma had collaborated with Sinovac regarding the raw material for the Covid-19 vaccine.

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If the vaccine can be produced by the end of 2020, then Bio Farma must purchase the raw materials from Sinovac for US $ 8 or Rp 117,135 (exchange rate of Rp. 14,641) per dose.

“Indeed, the price that has been cooperated with Sinovac for 2020 is 8 dollars per dose, but in 2021 the price is 6-7 dollars, so there is a decrease. These are raw materials, ”Erick said.

Meanwhile, if the Sinovac vaccine is ready to be used for mass immunization in Indonesia, Bio Farma’s estimate price calculation is IDR 25-30 US dollars or a range of IDR 366,000 to IDR 439,000 (the price of the vaccine Covid-19).

The goal is that the mass vaccine rollout can be carried out by the end of 2020. The corona virus vaccine is derived in part from imported bulk vaccine from Sinovac China.

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