VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The distribution of 1.2 million doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for the Covid-19 pandemic that has just arrived from China is confirmed to be in accordance with good drug distribution methods so that the vaccine can be accepted by the public.

This was said by the Minister of Health, Terawan Putranto, during a virtual press conference on Monday regarding the vaccine. Minister Terawan said the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination would be prioritized for health workers.

"For this first shipment of vaccines, the first target will be health workers, health worker assistants, support personnel working in health service facilities. In this case, the ministry of health has prepared the number of targets and vaccine needs per district/city. these are included in the information system team of KPCPEN (Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery-red), which will prepare target data by name by address," Terawan said.

Health Minister Terawan Putranto further emphasized that the government only provides vaccines that are proven safe and clinically tested and recommended by the World Health Organization.

Terawan added that the government had discussed the implementation of vaccine distribution in order to ensure the quality of vaccines was accepted by the public.

The program scheme starts from the provincial health office and then circulates it to the health office under it. (VOI)