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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Health Minister (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin opened the opportunity to inject the corona virus vaccine (COVID-19) against young people, on the condition that they are obliged to bring two seniors (seniors) to participate in the vaccine.
This effort, according to him, must be done so that the vaccination goal of 21.5 million older people in Indonesia can be completed quickly and at the beginning. This is because the elderly are a vulnerable group to Covid-19 exposure and contribute to the highest Covid-19 death rate in Indonesia.
“So I will issue a policy immediately. A young volunteer can get an injection. [vaksin Covid-19] as long as you bring two older people, because parents are difficult to bring, “Budi was quoted as saying. CNNIndonesia.com of videos uploaded to the Indonesian University Hospital Instagram account (@ rs.ui), Friday (3/26).
Budi continued, the main obstacle to the current national vaccination program is the availability of vaccines. So far, Indonesia has received around 57.6 million doses of vaccine, both in the form of finished vaccine and raw (in bulk).
The details, 3 million finished vaccines from the Chinese company Sinovac. Then 53.5 million bulk Sinovac vaccines and 1.113.6 billion doses of the vaccine came from the British company AstraZeneca.
With this condition, Budi wants the vaccination of the elderly to be accelerated against other priorities. This is because the vaccination program is currently entering the second stage that targets public service officials and the elderly.
“Parents are at high risk, they must inject early. In Indonesia, the elderly lose when they fight, they lose to journalists, they lose to politicians, because they cannot fight.
[Gambas:Instagram]In addition, the former vice minister of BUMN revealed that his goal was to inject up to 500,000 injections in the March-April period. The government itself has pledged to obtain around 426.8 million doses of vaccine from four foreign pharmaceutical companies to vaccinate 181.5 million Indonesians.
The details, 125.5 million vaccines from the Chinese company Sinovac. Then 74 million doses of the Novavax vaccine; 82.8 million doses of vaccine from British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca; 66.4 million doses of vaccine from Pfizer, as well as 78 million doses of vaccine through the multilateral cooperation scheme of the COVAX Facility of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). The facility is a vaccine development collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and GAVI.
“We will adjust the phase, March-April 500 thousand per day, later June-July we will slowly increase to 800-900 thousand per day,” said Budi.
The former managing director of Bank Mandiri again warned residents who had been vaccinated not to feel immune to the virus and to forget about 3M’s health protocol. This is because the immune system can only function optimally after 28 days, residents have received two doses of the corona virus vaccine.
“When you’re vaccinated, wait until 28 days after the second injection, this is just starting to form optimally. ‘When can I walk? Karaoke? That’s right,’ it’s better not to,” he said.
The Health Ministry noted that 6,730,456 people had received doses of the coronavirus vaccine from a Chinese company, Sinovac. Meanwhile, 3,015,190 people have finished receiving two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in Indonesia.
The national vaccination program itself has been running since January 13 and is scheduled to be completed between December 2021 and March 2022. This program is expected to achieve the goal of herd immunity or group immunity against corona virus .
The government has established four stages, the first targeting 1.4 million health workers, followed by the second, targeting 17.3 million public service workers and 21.5 million older people. Then the third stage of vaccination will continue, targeting 63.9 million vulnerable people who are in high-risk areas of contagion, as well as another 77.4 million people who are adjusted to the availability of vaccines.
(kha / ugo)
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