Official! Minister Of Health Removes Regulation On Paid Vaccination For Individuals

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JAKARTA - Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin abolished the provision for paid Gotong Royong Vaccination for individuals with the stipulation of Minister of Health Regulation Number 23 of 2021 concerning the Third Amendment to Regulation of the Minister of Health Number 10 of 2021 concerning Implementation of Vaccinations in the Context of Combating the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic. 19).

Reporting from the Ministry of Health website, the Permenkes was signed on July 28, 2021.

This rule is an amendment to the Regulation of the Minister of Health Number 19 of 2021 which in this provision contains rules regarding paid individual vaccinations through the Mutual Cooperation Vaccination scheme.

"With this change, the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination remains the same as the previous mechanism, which is given free of charge to all Indonesians through the COVID-19 National Vaccination Program and the Mutual Cooperation Vaccination Program through the company," the statement said.

The Gotong Royong vaccination through the company only uses the Sinopharm vaccine with a target of around 7.5 million people aged over 18 years.

This is different from the free Covid-19 National Vaccination Program which uses Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sinopharm and Novavax with a target of more than 200 million people aged over 12 years.