APPARENTLY supply vaccine The Indonesian government continues to add Covid-19 in an effort to boost the national vaccination program.
Of the supplies that have been received by Indonesia so far, the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer is the most recent to arrive.
This Pfizer vaccine is an mRNA type of Covid-19 vaccine that is different from other types of Covid-19 vaccines, such as Sinovac, AstraZeneca or Sinopharm.
Being mRNA, Pfizer vaccines are known to require special low-temperature storage devices that function to maintain the quality and quality of the vaccine. The Government Spokesman Regarding Covid-19, dr. Reisa Broto Asmoro, Thursday 2 September 2021, Indonesia will return about 1 million doses of Pfizer vaccine.
Then what about the storage device in particular?
Calm down, Doctor Reisa said the UN’s COVAX Facility will soon send a special storage device or what is known as UCC for mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna.
“The COVAX Facility will send an ultra cold chain, a low-temperature cooling device needed to store mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna,” said dr. Reisa was quoted from the PPKM Update live broadcast, Wednesday (1/9/2021) on the Presidential Secretariat Youtube account.
The arrival of the ultra cold chain as a special cooling device for storing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, added by Doctor Reisa, indicates that the distribution of Pfizer vaccines to areas outside Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi will soon be ready to be implemented.
“With this tool, areas outside Jabodetabek will be ready to receive the Pfizer vaccine,” he added.
For information, the series of arrivals of various types of Covid-19 vaccines to Indonesia, whether in the form of raw materials or ready-made vaccines, has increased the number of Covid-19 vaccines owned by Indonesia, to 218.5 million vaccines.
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