Booster Injections May Be Any Brand, The Public Is Asked To Immediately Continue The Vaccine

Illustration of the COVID 19 (ANTARA) vaccine

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health urges people who have not completed the dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to immediately obtain vaccination services at health facilities (faskes) as well as the nearest vaccination service post. "Now people can get any type of COVID-19 vaccine available," said Health Ministry Spokesperson Mohammad Syahril, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 26. He said the Ministry of Health through the Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control asked all heads of provincial and district/city health offices, heads and directors of hospitals, as well as leaders of health care facilities to facilitate the provision of COVID-19 vaccines in his region. To complement the primary and booster doses or boosters, said Syahril, the public could use any type of COVID vaccine available. "The point is that dose 1, 2, 3, 4 can use any vaccine. If the booster remains 6 months away," he said. Based on reports on clinical trial results from various COVID-19 vaccine platforms, in general individual antibody titers (immunity/immunity) after six months of the second immunization will decrease. So it is necessary to provide reinforcement or boosters to increase antibody titers for long-term protection,'' he said.

In principle, said Syahril, the best vaccine is the currently available vaccine and can be given using a COVID-19 vaccine platform that has received an Emergency Use Permit (EUA) from the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM). "For that, for people who have not completed the primary dose and follow-up dose or booster, they can be given the COVID-19 vaccination using the available vaccine," he said.