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President Joko Widodo declared himself ready to be the first in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

"If someone asks the President in front or behind? If the team asks me to be at the front, I'm ready," said President Jokowi at the Tanah Sereal Community Health Center, Bogor, West Java, Wednesday.

President Joko Widodo conveyed this while reviewing the simulation of the COVID-19 vaccine immunization at the Tanah Sereal Community Health Center, Bogor together with Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto and Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto.

However, President Jokowi emphasized that the vaccine recipients are prioritized by health workers.

"Who will be vaccinated first? The first one to be vaccinated is that the health personnel, be it doctors, doctors, nurses and also medical personnel, existing paramedics, will be given priority," he added.

After the health workers, there will be a state civilian apparatus.

However, until now, President Jokowi said that the government had not decided which brand of vaccine to give to the public.

"We will buy the vaccine from a brand company that is on the WHO list. I am not talking about the brand, as long as it is already on the WHO 'list'," said the President.

The Indonesian government is known to have signed an agreement to procure 143 million doses of vaccine concentrate with pharmaceutical companies from China, namely Sinovac, Sinopharm, and CanSino, respectively 65 million and 15 million to 20 million vaccine concentrate.

The vaccine is planned to be produced by state-owned company PT Bio Farma.

The third phase clinical trial of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is being carried out by a team from the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University since August 2020 and there have been 1,620 volunteers who received the first injection and have not found any side effects.

Apart from China, Indonesia has collaborated on vaccines with the G-24 technology company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in mid-August by supplying 10 million doses of vaccine in collaboration with PT Kimia Farma.

Then there are still 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca, it is hoped that the first delivery will be made in the second quarter of 2021.

The Chairperson of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery who is also the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said the target recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine are as many as 160 million people with vaccines that must be provided are 320 million doses of vaccine with details:

1. Front guard, such as medical and paramedical contact tracing, TNI / Polri public services, 3,497,737 legal officers with a need for 6,995,474 vaccine doses
2. The community (religious / community leaders), regional apparatus (sub-district, village, RT / RW) some economic actors total 5,624,010 people with a total vaccine of 11,248.00 doses
3. All teaching staff of 4,361,197 people with a vaccine of 8,722,394 people.
4. Government officials (central, regional, and legislative) totaling 2,305,689 people with a total of 4,611,734 doses of vaccine
5. PBJS participants who receive Contribution Assistance (PBI) totaling 86,622,867 people with 173,245,734 doses of vaccine
6. Plus the community and other economic players aged 19-59 years are 57,548,500 people with a vaccine need of 115,097,000 doses. (Antaranews)