The Task Force Affirms That The COVID-19 Certificate Will Be Required For Travel Actors To Be Still Discouraged

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JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Handling Task Force confirmed that until now the COVID-19 vaccine certificate has not become a requirement for travel. The COVID-19 vaccine certificate is still a discourse that requires further study.

There is also the discourse of a COVID-19 vaccination certificate as a requirement for travelers, initially conveyed by Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

"Until now, this is still a discourse," said Wiku Adisasmito, spokesman for the COVID-19 Task Force in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, March 18.

According to him, studies regarding the use of certificates as a requirement for travelers need to be carried out. Because until now the effectiveness of vaccines to create individual immunity for recipients is still being studied.

"If the certification is issued without a study proving that individual immunity has been created, then the certificate holder (still, red) has the potential to contract or transmit the COVID-19 virus while traveling," he said.

Previously, Minister of Health Budi explained the discourse in a joint meeting with Commission IX of the DPR, Monday, March 15. At that time, he considered, this could be declared, even though it became a debate among epidemiologists.

The former Deputy Minister of BUMN said that the epidemiologist suggested that this should not be implemented in the near future.

"I honestly said this when I first became Minister of Health. But it sparked debate among epidemiologists. I talked to them and they said that even though they were vaccinated, there was no guarantee that they could not be infected and could not infect them," Budi said at the time. that.

Even so, he still said, this discourse could be carried out if the people who received the vaccine had reached 30-40 percent of the total population.

"We can discuss this later. If more people are vaccinated, it might make sense too," he said.