People Can Booster Second, Jakarta Fires Pfizer And Zifivax Vaccines

Illustration of vaccines. (Photo by Hakan Nural on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The government has opened a second COVID-19 booster vaccination service or the fourth dose of vaccination starting January 24. In Jakarta, the DKI Health Office provides hundreds of vaccination centers that can be visited by the public. "The DKI Jakarta Health Office has alerted around 300 vaccination sites per day and services for Saturday and Sunday or weekend are provided," said Head of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Immunization Section of the DKI Health Office, Ngabila Salama in a short message, Sunday, January 22. Especially for vaccination at weekends and nights, the available vaccination centers are in all sub-district-level health centers. The operating hours of the weekend vaccination start at 08.00-12.00 WIB and at night at 16.00-20.00 WIB. "The vaccines available are the current Pfizer and Zifivax brands in DKI Jakarta," said Ngabila. Ngabila said that vaccination services in Jakarta can be visited by people with ID cards throughout Indonesia, as long as tickets for dose 4 are available in the PeduliLindung application. As of January 21, the stock of COVID-19 vaccination in Jakarta was 158,864 doses, with details of Pfizer 135,864 doses, Indovac 50 doses, and Zififax 22,950 doses. Meanwhile, currently, 78,294 health workers have received the second booster vaccination and 97,766 elderly people. As is known, the Ministry of Health issued Circular Number HK.02.02/C/380/2023 concerning the 2nd COVID-19 Vaccination Booster for General Society groups. It is said that the public no longer needs to wait for tickets to get the injection. Here are the types of vaccines that can be used for the second booster: 1. Combination for the first booster Sinovac - AstraZeneca given half dose (half dose) or 0.25 ml - Pfizer given half dose (half dose) or 0.15 ml - Moderna is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Sinopharm is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Sinovac given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Full dose Zifivax (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Indovac given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Inavac full dose or 0.5 ml 2. Combination for the first booster AstraZeneca - Moderna is given half dose (half dose) or 0.25 ml - Pfizer given half dose (half dose) or 0.15 ml - AstraZeneca is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml 3. Combination for the first booster Pfize - Pfizer is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.3 ml - Moderna is given half dose (half dose) or 0.25 ml - AstraZeneca is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml 4. Combination for Moderna's first booster - Moderna is given half dose (half dose) or 0.25 ml - Pfizer given half dose (half dose) or 0.15 ml 5. Combination for Janssen's first booster (J&J) - Janssen (J&J) is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Pfizer is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.3 ml - Moderna is given half dose (half dose) or 0.25 ml 6. Combination for the first Sinopharm booster - Sinopharm is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml - Zivifax is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml 7. Combination for the first booster of Covovax - Covovax is given a full dose (full dose) or 0.5 ml