Jakarta – Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin conveyed that there were obstacles in the process of vaccine delivery AstraZeneca to Indonesia. AstraZeneca’s planned delivery for the period March and April 2021 was postponed due to an embargo in India.
“The schedule is that we get the free vaccine from Covax-GAVI, yesterday we got 1.1 million doses of free AstraZeneca vaccine. We plan to get 2.5 million on March 22, then April will get 7.8 million doses. Apparently it was postponed, because there was an issue. India embargo vaccines, “said Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, as reported by Antaranews, Sunday (28/7/2021).
India is experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases. Thus, they do not allow the vaccine to leave their country.
For Budi, India has the largest AstraZeneca vaccine production capacity in the world. Now, Gocax-GAVI as AstraZeneca’s vaccine provider to Indonesia, is rescheduling the vaccine delivery.
Budi Gunadi and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will talk with the World Health Organization (WHO) to see if the AstraZeneca vaccine can be sent to Indonesia in May or June 2021. “Later, I will discuss this with the Foreign Minister soon with WHO, and hopefully in May or June it will be possible again. made delivery, “he said.
Budi added that the number of vaccination participants in Indonesia has reached 10 million people as of Friday (26/3). This figure is in accordance with the availability of vaccines.
“Today, vaccinations exceed 10 million vaccinations, with a daily rate of approaching 500 thousand injections per day. In March and April, the availability of vaccines is 15 million per month and is in accordance with the speed of injection,” said Budi.
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