OPINION
Optimism in Welcoming Vaccines
Almost all television stations broadcast live the arrival of a Garuda airplane at Soekarno-Hatta Airport carrying 1.2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, a product of Sinovac, on 6 December 2020.
Even important state guests are not welcomed with such massive news coverage.
Almost all television stations broadcast live the arrival of a Garuda airplane at Soekarno-Hatta Airport carrying 1.2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, a product of Sinovac, on 6 December 2020. The video of the plane unloading the large box of vaccine went viral.
The arrival of this vaccine truly got special treatment from the government. The vaccine is expected to be able to cope with the spike in (Covid-19) transmission, which until now has not decreased, even tends to rise sharply. Until the second week of December, the increase in the number of positive cases averaged over 5,000 cases per day, with an increase of about 150 deaths per day. The number of doctors and medical personnel who fell victim and died has exceeded 300 people. The situation is not improving and enforcement of health protocols is weak. Most of the activities that created crowds were not prosecuted.
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