Speed Up the Vaccination Drive

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The community health center (Puskesmas) in Cilincing subdistrict, North Jakarta conducts a COVID-19 vaccination simulation on Tuesday (12/1/2021). The simulation includes registration, screening or health examinations, vaccination and post-vaccination observation. The observation lasts 30 minutes to see if there are any side effects after a person receives the vaccine. The government plans to begin the Covid-19 vaccination program on 13 Jan, 2021. President Joko Widodo will be the first person to be injected with the Covid-19 vaccine.

More raw material for the Covid-19 vaccine has arrived in Indonesia. The availability of the vaccine is crucial to accelerate the vaccination drive and create herd immunity in the country.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Ten million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine raw material produced by Sinovac Biotech, China, arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday (2/2/2021). The raw material for the vaccine for this mass vaccination is part of the 140 million doses that will arrive gradually this year.