Government Studies Booster Vaccines Pfizer, Sinovac And AstraZeneca

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, said the government was reviewing the provision of booster vaccines from producers Pfizer, Sinovac, and AstraZeneca.

"The Perpres and Permenkes will be revised and the government will seek this as soon as possible and this process is currently under review and is being processed at the POM Agency", said Coordinating Minister Airlangga at the PPKM (Community Activity Restrictions) Press Conference quoted by Antara, Monday, December 20.

Airlangga added that according to President Jokowi's direction, the government is also preparing several options for booster vaccines. Among them are red and white vaccines developed by SOEs with Baylor Collage, including vaccines in collaboration between Airlangga University and Biotis Pharmaceutical, Kalbe Farma, and Genexine, to the Nusantara vaccine.

"This will soon be finalized, regulations will be prepared, including regulations for the price of each vaccine", he said.

In addition, Airlangga also conveyed the realization of the National Economic Recovery (PEN) fund. The Social Protection cluster reached 86.4 percent, the Priority Program cluster reached 74.2 percent, the support for MSMEs and Cooperatives whose realization of business incentives has reached 100 percent or IDR 63.16 trillion.

"The current health cluster and its prognosis are expected to remain around 90.3 percent of the ceiling achieved in various programs, wherein the health cluster it is still 68.6 percent", said Airlangga.