Editor: Anjar Wulandari
BANJARMASINPOST.CO.ID, JAKARTA –The discourse to make a vaccination certificate a condition for traveling by airplane is still a polemic. This is because vaccination has just been carried out and the effectiveness of reducing the number of Covid-19 transmission cannot be seen.
Even the head of the Covid-19 Task Force for the Indonesian Doctors Association (PB IDI) Zubairi Djoerban said the government had to make detailed calculations if it wanted to enforce the Covid-19 vaccine certificate policy as a condition for flights.
Because, according to him, it is not yet known to what extent the vaccine can prevent recipients from transmitting Covid-19.
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“If now being vaccinated, the next day is immune? Isn’t it. A week? Not yet. A month? That’s just enough immunity,” said Zubairi through his official Twitter account which was allowed to be quoted on Thursday (18/3/2021).
“Hence, it must be rigidly calculated if this policy is to be made,” he continued.
Zubairi explained that the body’s immunity is not formed immediately after injection of the first or second dose of vaccine.
He said it was safe two months after the first vaccine or at least two weeks after the second vaccine, the recipient of the vaccine could be adequately protected from Covid-19.
“What is clear, there is no certainty whether the vaccine recipient did not transmit the virus to people,” he said.
Previously, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin had the idea to make a Covid-19 vaccine certificate one of the requirements for people who wanted to travel by airplane.
However, he said, this was a matter of debate among epidemiologists.
“I honestly said this when I first became Minister of Health. But it sparked debate among epidemiologists. I talked to them and they said that even though they were vaccinated, there is no guarantee that they cannot be infected and cannot infect them, ”Budi said during a joint meeting with Commission IX DPR RI, Monday (15/3/2021).
The former Deputy Minister of BUMN added that the epidemiologists suggested that this should not be implemented in the near future.
However, this can be applied if the Indonesian people have been vaccinated as much as 30 percent of the total population.
“So there are still many epidemiologists who suggest that if you want to be conservative, you shouldn’t first. But we can talk about this if more people are vaccinated, it might make sense too, “he said.
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This article has been published on Kompas.com with the title “Discourse of Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates as Travel Requirements, IDI: Must be taken into account rigidly“
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