Regarding The Independent Vaccination Option, Erick Calls The Type And Brand Will Be Different From The Free Vaccine

BUMN Minister Erick Thohir during a meeting with Commission VI (Photo: screenshot of the live broadcast broadcast on Parliament TV)

JAKARTA - State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Erick Thohir has opened his voice on employers' proposals to open independent pathway for COVID-19 vaccination. As is well known, currently there is only one route available, namely free vaccination.

According to Erick, currently free vaccines are the government's top priority. Meanwhile, independent vaccines are not yet a priority. Even so, his party did not close his eyes if independent vaccination was also needed.

Furthermore, Erick explained, if the independent vaccine route is opened, the types and brands of vaccines will be different from the free vaccines provided by the government.

"If until later we are assigned an independent vaccine, of course as directed by the leadership, there are several notes, one vaccine is of different types. So that free and independent ones are not mixed. So the vaccine brands are different," he said, in a working meeting with Commission VI of the DPR, Wednesday , January 20.

Apart from the types of vaccines, said Erick, the timing of the independent and free vaccines will also be different. Where, the free vaccine will take precedence, only then will the independent vaccine be given.

"So the free vaccine must run, in the next 1 to 2 months, only later if someone is independent after that. We got (information) from yesterday's discussions," he said.

Regarding this independent vaccination, Erick is still waiting for an assignment from the Ministry of Health. This is because the BUMN Ministry will only carry out the tasks assigned by the central government.

"If indeed this is a decision with a clear legal umbrella, but actually in the Ministry of Health's decision at that time there is a free and independent vaccine. We just need to apply it, whether later assigned an independent vaccine to run or not," he said.