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Indonesia Receives Additional 1.8 Million Vaccines From Sinovac

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi announced that Indonesia will receive 1.8 million Covid-19 vaccines from Sinovac, two weeks after the Chinese pharmaceutical company sent 1.2 million doses of the vaccine to the country.

Retno highlighted the move after she and Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin witnessed state owned Indonesian pharmaceutical companies Bio Farma and Indo Farma strike deals to buy 50 million vaccines from their foreign counterparts Astra Zeneca and Novavax.

She added that the securing of the vaccines are due to “the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ ‘multiple track diplomacy’.

These include bilateral diplomacy to secure supplies from pharmaceutical companies as well as multilateral diplomacy with the WHO, GAVI and other initiatives.”

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin agreed with Retno. “The 50 million doses of the [Covid-19] vaccine from Astra Zeneca and Novavax will give the public room to choose the vaccine that is best suited for them,” he said.

The government has procured 371 million Covid-19 vaccines through 2022. The authorities aim to inoculate at least 181 million Indonesians to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.

Source:

https://go.kompas.com/read/2020/12/31/042022374/indonesia-receives-additional-18-million-vaccines-from-sinovac?page=all#page2. 

Jakarta Prepares Facilities for Mass Vaccinations

Jakarta is prepared to lead the way for the rest of Indonesia in mass Covid-19 vaccinations, after Jakarta Governor issued instructions to build infrastructure for the inoculations.

The instructions stipulated “Regional secretaries to coordinate vaccination efforts in their respective areas…and for Regional Financial Management heads to draw up the budget for the vaccinations.”

Anies also ordered the Mayors of Central, South, East, North and West Jakarta and the Regent of the Thousand Islands to "orient the public in their areas about the Covid-19 vaccinations.”

The instructions also called on the Jakarta Health Services to prepare their manpower and supporting facilities for the vaccinations, as well as keep records. Anies and his deputy Ahmad Riza Patria also contracted Covid-19 at the end of November.

Source:

https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2020/12/30/12182161/anies-keluarkan-instruksi-gubernur-untuk-persiapan-fasilitas-vaksinasi.