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Health Ministry Ensures Stock of Covid-19 Vaccine is Still Safe
Written by Nur Yasmin
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The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) ensures that the stock of the Covid-19 vaccine in Indonesia is still available. Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Dante Saksono said the shortage of vaccines that occurred in a number of areas was due to distribution problems.
"So actually the vaccine is not empty, the vaccine is there. It's just that the current distribution has been hampered yesterday," said Dante when met in Jakarta, Saturday (22/10/2022).
Currently, said Dante, the government is trying to speed up the distribution process, as well as increase the existing stock of vaccines. One of them is by increasing the production capacity of the domestically made Covid-19 vaccine.
It is known that the domestically produced Indovac vaccine has received permission to use for doses one and two. As for the booster, continued Dante, it is still waiting for permission from the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM).
"We hope that later the spearhead of the booster will be a domestically produced vaccine. So, we have the booster or resilience, or resistance to make this vaccine produced by ourselves, not dependent on other countries," he said. (RRI)
