Epidemiologist Reminds: The Presence Of Vaccines Does Not Mean Lack Of Health Protocols

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JAKARTA - Epidemiologist Andalas University West Sumatra Defriman Djafri reminded that the availability of vaccines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the future does not mean that people can ignore health protocols.

"Moreover, the vaccination that will be carried out is of course applying the health protocol in its implementation," said Defriman as quoted by Antara, Thursday, December 31.

He acknowledged that the availability of vaccines is essentially a big hope and is awaited by everyone to be implemented so that immunity is expected to be the solution to ending this pandemic.

In general, the vaccination process takes time to prepare to reach all audiences, including the effectiveness of the vaccine, which is ideally expected to be above 70 percent and safe to give to the public.

He emphasized that the most important of all is of course building public trust in the implementation of vaccination so that it can be truly accepted in its implementation in the future.

"Information that is complete and complete and easily accessible is one way and needs to be massively disseminated to the public," said the Head of the Association of Indonesian Epidemiologists for West Sumatra Province.

On the other hand, a health policy that is precise, measurable and can truly be controlled by the government should have an important role in efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

Each of these policies, he said, could be followed and adjusted to the lower levels of government and there was no doubt that policy makers would implement them in all levels of society.

According to him, the role of regional heads is a key factor in implementing the health policy. Then, it is also inseparable from the enforcement of rules and the provision of examples and examples to the community in implementing health protocols.

"This will certainly increase public confidence in the government's responsibility in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and provision to break the chain of transmission," he said.