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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – The Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) appreciates the decision Bill gates who funded the discovery and production of vaccines corona virus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19).
Puspita Lisdiyanti, director of LIPI’s Center for Biotechnology Research, said funding for Gates through the Gates Foundation will accelerate the discovery of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Puspita, who also serves as Chairman of the Covid-19 Management Acceleration Task Force, said he hoped Gates’ actions could attract entrepreneurs in Indonesia to help fund research on the Covid-19 vaccine.
“Hopefully in Indonesia there are also many entrepreneurs who can provide research funds,” said Puspita. CNNIndonesia.com, Tuesday (4/28).
The Gates Foundation has pledged a total of $ 250 million to help develop diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines. They also helped strengthen health systems in Africa and South Asia.
Puspita said that Indonesia itself has prepared various products such as ultraviolet and ozone-based sterilizers. In the near future, efforts will be made to detect the Covid-19 virus, clinical trials of immunomodulators, ventilators and sequencing of the entire Indonesian herbal genome.
Since March 26, LIPI has provided training in Covid-19 handling. The training was attended by 850 participants who will be a team to detect the COVUD-19 virus based on polymerase chain reaction in real time (RT-PCR).
“This training is to meet the needs of human resources trained in the management of pathogenic microorganisms such as COVID-19, such as understanding biosecurity and biosafety aspects,” said Lilis.
Contacted separately, Griffith University epidemiologist from Australia Dicky Budiman explained that a private company or foundation plays an important role in health programs worldwide, including in Indonesia.
Dicky, who served as Head of Bilateral Cooperation at the Ministry of Health’s Center for Foreign Cooperation, said that many infrastructure or disease control programs in various developing countries were aided and built with the existence of grants similar to those made by Bill Gates.
“Bill Gates has long sponsored a great deal of research and efforts to control infectious diseases, both through support of human resource development, drug and vaccine research. I know this and feel the benefits, because I also I’m involved in the Global Alliance Global Fund for Tuberculosis, Malaria and Vaccine Management, “said Dicky.
Dicky explained that the Covid-19 vaccine was one of the necessary exit strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine is the answer to the fact that most cases of Covid-19 infection are asymptomatic (asymptomatic), a factor that complicates the world in order to control Covid-19.
“There are currently around 43 Covid-19 vaccine studies worldwide, including one in Brisbane, Australia, where I live. Covid-19 vaccine research in Australia is in the preclinical testing phase for animals, which it is expected to take 3 months, “said Dicky. .
Previously, Minister of Health of Indonesia (2004-2009) Siti Fadilah Supari. Siti previously made Indonesia the center of international attention after gathering support from other countries to sue the World Health Organization (WHO) for handling the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in 2005.
Siti defended himself by not sending the virus sample requested by the WHO. He did not accept that the management of the outbreak must follow the standards of the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GSIN) because it is not transparent and risks becoming a monopoly on basic products in the vaccine trade. Not only that, he was also suspicious of Bill Gates.
Siti’s efforts to dismantle the alleged global health business conspiracy have been poured into the book The Time for the World to Change (2008) accompanied by exposure to literacy and evidence of data, as long as it falls from and towards the avian flu outbreak in Indonesia.
Despite the controversy, Siti received recognition from the world. The Economist magazine in London, for example, places Siti as a figure who started a revolution to save the world from the effects of a pandemic.
How do you see scientists around the world now competing for covid-19 vaccines, including Bill Gates, who invested large funds to fund vaccine research?
Vaccines are not necessary at this stage. The current phase of the virus is still changing, it cannot be conquered with a vaccine. The world does not need vaccines at the moment, except for Bill Gates, who is very concerned about vaccines, even since the Davos meeting in 2017, has asked rich countries to prepare vaccines if there is a pandemic.
And now Bill Gates [diberitakan] Testing has already started with several people in a certain country. Bill Gates too [diberitakan] it is said to make the vaccine as early as 18 months.
I don’t suspect Bill Gates. But I wonder what Bill Gates used which seed virus to get the vaccine tested? Although Bill Gates said manufacturing of the vaccine took at least 18 months [tapi sudah diberitakan Bill Gates mulai uji coba vaksin ke beberapa orang]. (jnp / DAL)
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