VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) hopes that the domestically-made Covid-19 vaccine can soon be used as a booster or booster vaccine. The hope is that vaccines made in Indonesia can spearhead the acceleration of booster implementation in the country.

"We hope that later the spearhead of the booster will be a domestically produced vaccine. So, we have a booster or resilience, or resistance to make this vaccine produced by ourselves, not depending on other countries," said Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Dante Saksono in Jakarta , Saturday (10/22/2022).

Indonesia has produced its own vaccine for handling Covid-19, called Indovac. Currently, the vaccine has obtained permission for the use of doses one and two.

The presence of a domestically made vaccine is also expected to make it easier for people to get boosters to increase antibodies.

"With this hope, whatever new variant appears, we can get the optimal booster vaccine. Why? This antibody has an age, of course it will continue to decline. The decrease in these antibodies will cause the risk of getting Covid-19 to increase," he said. (RRI)