Critical Period for RI’s Covid Surge Continues Through December

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Committee for the Management of Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPC-PEN) anticipates an increase in the transmission of Covid-19 cases. The government says Indonesia’s critical time is three months until December 2020.

This was communicated by the president of KPC-PEN Airlangga Hartarto in a written statement on Friday (09/18/2020).

“Critical timeit’s three months (until December 2020). We must protect ourselves against extreme spikes and abnormal conditions before vaccination begins, “Airlangga said in its written statement on Friday (09/18/2020).

Regarding the acquisition of vaccines, the government claims to have a procurement plan through a Presidential Regulation (Perpres) on the Acquisition of Vaccines and the Implementation of Vaccines. The Presidential Decree will fully regulate the process of obtaining, purchasing, distributing vaccines, as well as the implementation of vaccines or immunizations.

Subsequently, the government will establish a protocol for the implementation of vaccination, which will be coordinated with the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes).

The Ministry of Health, Airlangga said, has prepared it Road map National Plan for the Implementation of Covid-19 Immunization.

“Road map this will fully govern the administration of the vaccine, including the preparation chronology and the stages of immunization. The plan, road map it will be completed and reported in the plenary session next week, ”he said.

In addition, he continued, a Ministry of Health Regulation (Permenkes) would also be drafted as a result of the Presidential Decree on Acquisition of Vaccines and Implementation of Vaccines, which regulates the determination of the number and type of vaccines, acquisition of vaccines, purchase of vaccines, determination criteria and priority recipients and priority areas, technical guidelines. implementation of vaccinations, etc.

The government has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Minister of Health and UNICEF, witnessed by the Minister of BUMN and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in relation to the procurement of vaccines under a multilateral scheme. For clinical trials in Bandung, the results will be announced in mid-October 2020.

(wia)