6 Million Bulk Of Sinovac Vaccines Coming Today

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JAKARTA - As many as 6 million doses of the raw material (bulk) of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Soekarno-Hatta Airport today. The vaccine bulk is transported using containers.

"Today we brought in 6 million bulk vaccines from Sinovac, China, which is part of the 140 million bulk vaccines we will receive this year", said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a YouTube broadcast of the Presidential Secretariat, Sunday, April 18.

In total, currently, Indonesia has received 59.9 bulk vaccines. Budi said that the bulk vaccine that had arrived was produced by PT Bio Farma to produce around 47 million doses of vaccine.

"Until now, there have been about 22 million doses out of the 46 million that we have received and distributed to various regions", he said.

Furthermore, in the next month, Indonesia could receive an additional 20 million doses of finished vaccine, the result of production from Bio Farma for the arrival of this bulk vaccine.

"Thus, we hope that the vaccination program in all provinces, all districts/cities can run smoothly and well for April and May", he said.

In the national COVID-19 vaccination program, the government is targeting 181.5 million vaccine targets. They are people aged 18 years and over. Vaccine recipients receive twice the injection dose.

In the first phase, the vaccine is intended for 1.5 million health workers. Then, in the second stage, COVID-19 vaccination is for the elderly and public service workers. The target is 21.5 million elderly and 16.9 million public officers.

They are market merchants, educators, religious leaders and counselors, representatives of the people, officials, government, civil servants, the National Army and National Police Force (TNI-Polri), tourism officers, public services, public transportation workers, athletes, and media workers.

Furthermore, the vaccination will be carried out for 63.9 million vulnerable people or people living in areas with a high risk of infection. Then, other communities as many as 77.7 million people.