Have A Little Stock, So The Cause Of The COVID-19 Vaccine Can't Be Given Quickly

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JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said Indonesia only has 70 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 60 million have been injected. This causes the government can not run the vaccination program quickly.

"When asked why it couldn't be faster, because the number of vaccines is only that much," said Minister of Health Budi in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, July 26.

However, the Minister of Health asked the public not to worry. This is because Indonesia will return 30 million doses of vaccine at the end of July and 45 million doses in August.

"Until the end of July, around 8 million Sinovac vaccines and 4 million Astrazeneca vaccines will come. So 12 million will come from July 25 to 31. We will send them later," said Budi.

Meanwhile, the vaccines that will come in August will consist of Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Pfizer. Later, the vaccine that comes will be sent to various regions when it arrives in Indonesia.

The Minister of Health explained that 44.9 million people had the first injection of the COVID-19 vaccine and 18.3 million people had complete vaccines or were vaccinated with two doses.

"We give priority to risk-based vaccination. This means that we will give more provinces with high active cases. The high ones are Banten, DKI Jakarta, West Bawa, Surabaya, East Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta and Bali," said Budi.

In addition, priority will also be given to the elderly and have congenital or comorbid diseases.

"The comorbids are usually those who are over 50 years old like me. This must have comorbidities and that's what we must prioritize," he concluded.