Getting Ready For Children Under 6 Years To Be Injected With A COVID-19 Vaccine, PT Bio Farma Will Apply For A Permit

JAKARTA - PT Bio Farma (Persero) will soon apply for an emergency use permit (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccine for under six years of age. However, at this time his party is still collecting data before applying for a permit. "We are still in the process, some of the data has been collected but it is not sufficient," said Bio Farma President Director Honesti Basyir at the COVID-19 Vaccine Panja Meeting with Commission IX of the DPR which was followed online at Jakarta, Wednesday April 6. He estimates that the EUA data collection process for COVID-19 vaccines for children under six years of age will be completed in June this year. under six years old," he said, as reported by Antara.

Until now, the EUA for COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved for children aged 6-17 years. Meanwhile, based on data from the Ministry of Health as of April 6, 2022 until 18.00 WIB, the achievement of vaccination for children aged 6-11 years for dose one reached 20.24 million or 76.70 percent of the target target of 26.4 million children.

While the second dose reached 15.87 million (60.14 percent). And the third dose vaccinated 3,429 children.

The achievement of vaccination for children aged 12-17 years for dose one reached 25.09 million or 93.96 percent of the target of 26.7 million. While the second dose reached 21.37 million (80.03 percent). And the third dose of vaccination is 219,940 children. Previously, Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko said the government continued to encourage the COVID-19 vaccination program for children to restore learning and teaching activities that had been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. cannot completely replace the quality of face-to-face learning (PTM). If the condition drags on, it is feared that it will threaten the quality of Indonesia's human resources (HR).