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Amin said that in a situation that is not pandemic or normal, vaccine production can take years. “In the absence of a pandemic, the situation is normal. If we want to make a vaccine, it will take 5 years, 7 years, 10 years to 30 years. There is no perfect vaccine, for example, until now there is no vaccine that is satisfactory,” he said. Amen in a statement to SINDOnews, Jakarta (14/8/2020).
In the current era of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Amin, it is hoped that the vaccine will be produced in the shortest possible time. “So the WHO also predicts that this vaccine will only be available in the market for about 18 months from the beginning of this year. So around the end of next year, WHO estimates,” said Amin.Read it too: Convalescent Plasma Therapy Can Cure Covid, This Is Eijkman’s LBM Explanation)
However, Amin hopes that the COVID-19 vaccine can be marketed and injected into humans early next year. “But many vaccine companies want to be faster than that. So now we see that several vaccine candidates have entered the third clinical trial. So it is hoped that early next year it can be marketed, can be available for injection into humans,” he said.
Currently, Indonesia is also making a local vaccine called Merah Putih which has been developed since April. President Joko Widodo gave a one-year target to develop the COVID-19 vaccine seed. It is hoped that next year the vaccine seeds can be submitted to the industry for mass production.
“We started developing it since April, in May we got the mandate to develop it and we were only given 1 year to be able to develop the vaccine seeds. And the vaccine seeds will be submitted to the industry for clinical trials, like the one injected by the President yesterday. vaccine clinics from abroad, “said Amin.Read it too: Almost Completed, Development of Red and White Vaccine Has Reached 40%)
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