VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Foreign Affairs Ministry continues to support the government in managing the pandemic both in terms of health and socio-economy through cooperation with other parties.

This was said by the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi, on Monday, during a virtual press conference about the arrival of 1.2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from China.

He added that diplomacy is also active to support efforts to provide vaccines, with the main task of opening access, paving roads, and overcoming various obstacles that arise.

After successfully procuring vaccines from China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on obtaining the COVAX vaccine from WHO.

"Currently, together with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is continuing to communicate with Geneva for the procurement of multilateral vaccines. As is known, Indonesia is one of the 92 countries COVAX AMC (Advance Market Commitment-ed), which will receive 3 vaccines up to 20 percent of the population is from the GAVI COVAX Facility, "Retno said.

Retno Marsudi explained that Indonesia had sent a vaccine request form to the COVAX Facility on December 7 according to the deadline.

It is hoped that the multilateral vaccine can also enter Indonesia gradually in 2021. Retno Marsudi confirmed that diplomacy will guard other efforts, so that Indonesia can immediately overcome this pandemic. (VOI)