Indonesian Health Workers to Start Getting Booster Jabs Next Week
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13 July 2021 11:08 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian health workers will get a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines starting next week. The booster will be in the form of the vaccine from Moderna, which arrived in Indonesia on Sunday, July 11.
Indonesia finally decided to give health workers third doses or boosters following a lot of pressure.
"Soon, maybe next week it can start," the Indonesian Health Ministry's pokesperson for Covid-19 vaccination, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, told Tempo on Monday, July 12.
Nadia said that within the week 3,000,060 doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived from the United States. They will go through the quality control process conducted by the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency before being distributed for health workers.
"Starting with Java and Bali, according to the number of health workers who had received the first and second doses," Nadia said
In total, Indonesia will receive 4,500,160 doses of Moderna vaccine. In addition to the third booster dose for health workers, the Moderna vaccine will also be injected into the general public.
According to the ministry's website, as of noon of July 12, there are 1,428,122 health workers who have received the second dose.
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