The Health Office Has Injected 5 Million COVID Vaccines To Acehnese, The Most Are Sinovac

Residents show bottles of Pfizer vaccine while receiving a COVID-19 vaccination in Banda Aceh,

ACEH - The Aceh Provincial Health Office has used around 5 million doses of vaccine during the COVID-19 vaccination implementation. The implementation of vaccines continues to be intensified to create group immunity for the community.

"Until now, vaccination is still being carried out, both the first dose, the second dose and also the booster vaccine", said Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Aceh Health Office, Iman Murahman, in Banda Aceh, quoted from Antara on Tuesday, February 15.

Iman explained that there were 3.5 million people in the westernmost province of Indonesia who had received the first dose of vaccination. Then those who have completed the second dose of about 1.5 million people, and 80 thousand people have received the third dose or booster.

"So we have used around 5 million doses for the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination in Aceh", he said.

The vaccines used by the Aceh government are varied, ranging from Sinovac, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines. All types of vaccines were sent by the central government to Aceh and distributed to 23 districts/cities in need. "The most widely used are Sinovac, then Moderna and Pfizer", he said.

In the middle of last week, his party just received an additional 300,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from the central government, and it has been distributed throughout Aceh.

Currently, he said, the government has limited the use of the Sinovac vaccine. This brand of vaccine is only given specifically to children as recipients of the first dose and residents who inject the second dose, considering that the achievement of the second dose in Aceh is only around 41 percent.

"Alhamdulillah, 295,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine are already available in their respective districts/cities, and they have been able to cover this within a week. In addition to children, we can no longer use Sinovac for one dose. One dose we are now using Moderna and Pfizer", he said.

He added that the implementation of vaccination in Aceh was running smoothly. During the vaccination, his party only got six residents who experienced severe Post-Immunization Adverse Events (AEFI) in the form of limb weakness.

"It's only about 6 people, so the percentage is very small from the target we have implemented for the COVID-19 vaccination", he said.