Coordinating Minister For PMK Ensures Vaccine Stock Is Safe
SOLO - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (PMK) Muhadjir Effendy asked regional heads not to stock up on COVID-19 vaccines in order to accelerate vaccination to the public.
"God willing, the vaccine stock is safe. That's why I urge regional leaders not to stock up on vaccines. Vaccines come, inject, vaccines come, inject," he said on the sidelines of a review of vaccines for Islamic boarding schools and disabilities at the Kustati Islamic General Hospital in Surakarta, Central Java, quoted by Antara. , Thursday, September 2nd.
Muhadjir said that until now vaccines continue to come from abroad so that they are guaranteed to be available in safe conditions.
"This continues to flow the number of vaccines from abroad. Thanks to the hard work of the Minister of Foreign Affairs with various schemes. Apart from buying, there are donors from bilateral and multilateral," he said.
Regarding the vaccination achievement in Solo Raya, according to Muhadjir, it is currently quite good. However, the handling of COVID-19 still has to be improved considering that Solo is in an agglomeration area.
"Solo is an agglomeration, the name is Solo Raya, so the movement of people is concentrated, not centrifugal but centripetal. So it accumulates in Solo during the day. At night it is only 600,000, in the afternoon it can be 2 million people," he continued.
Muhadjir said that this condition prevented the handling of COVID-19 cases in Solo City from being completed immediately.
"This is because Solo is the center of the movement of people, especially from the surrounding area. That's why the vaccination is accelerated, Soloraya is a complex, especially the last leveling. Not because of Solo, but because there are six districts where all people move to Solo," he said.
Meanwhile, at the event, Muhadjir Effendy, who was accompanied by the Mayor of Surakarta, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, also distributed masks to dozens of students who were queuing for the vaccine.