Make Sure The Stock Of COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe, Minister Of Health Budi: Be Careful With Expired Vaccines

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said the number of stocks of COVID-19 vaccines in the country was safe. Currently, there are 276 million doses of the vaccine, and 267 million doses have been distributed.

"Our vaccine stock is safe, there are 276 million. 267 million doses have been distributed and 206 million have been used. So there are still 60 million doses of vaccine stock," Budi said in an online press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, November 15.

Although vaccine stocks are safe, local governments are asked to be wary of expired vaccines. Moreover, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has received reports that there are a number of regions that need to pay attention to the doses of their COVID-19 vaccines so they don't expire.

"Mr. President emphasized that please be careful with expired vaccines. So some provinces whose reports reached him, such as in NTT, Central Java, Jogja, need to be considered so that the vaccines do not expire," said Budi.

"If, for example, it is close to expiration, maybe we can transfer it to other provinces that still need it or we can transfer it to the TNI and Polri," added the former Deputy Minister of BUMN. . He said, every day there are 1.6 million to 2 million doses of vaccine given to the public.

If this rate of injection continues or exceeds, it is estimated that by the end of this year the vaccine injection could reach 300 million doses. "With an estimate for the first dose there are 161 million people or 78 percent of the target population and the projected second dose will reach 118 million or close to 60 percent," said Budi.

"This is more than the WHO target where by the end of the year we must reach 40 percent of the second dose," he concluded.