The COVID-19 Vaccine In Jakarta Is Starting To Run Low

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Health Office (Dinkes) admits that currently the stock of COVID-19 vaccines in most of Jakarta's vaccination centers has been scarce in the last few days. Head of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Immunization Section of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Ngabila Salama admitted that the scarcity of vaccine stocks in the capital was due to the absence of a supply of vaccine doses from the Ministry of Health. "The Ministry of Health has not provided any more vaccines. The Ministry of Health is procuring vaccines," Ngabila said in a short message, Tuesday, October 18. As a result, the number of COVID-19 vaccines available in several vaccination centers is still limited. "At most, only hundreds of doses in DKI are currently scattered," said Ngabila. It is known that as of October 17, 2022, 84 people were vaccinated with the first dose in one day, 222 people were vaccinated with the second dose, and 1,441 were vaccinated against the third dose. Confirmed separately, the Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Siti Nadia Tarmizi admitted that the vaccine stock distributed by the central government to the regions was indeed limited. "(The vaccine stock) is limited to not being empty because some are scattered in health facilities but the injection rate is different. So, some are empty, some are still there even though they are limited," said Nadia. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health seeks to relocate the distribution of vaccines from sufficient areas to other underprivileged areas. It is targeted that within the next week vaccine stocks will be available again in normal quantities. "God willing, in the next week it will be available again. The stock will be domestically produced and if it is less than the (multilateral cooperation program) of the COVAX Facility," he explained.