TRIBUNKALTIM.CO, JAKARTA – President Jokowi make sure the preparations go well, the government urges citizens to recognize it vaccine covid-19.
The government continues to make efforts to prepare the program vaccineabout covid-19 with ripe. Vaccine Corona or covid-19 currently in phase 3 clinical trials.
President Joko Widodo has also ensured that preparations are going well, such as directly observing the implementation of vaccine trials covid-19 which involved 1,620 volunteers last August in Bandung, West Java.
Including a direct review of the covid-19 vaccination simulation at the Tanah Sareal Health Center, Bogor, West Java, on (11/18/2020).
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Apart from preparing vaccine, the government continues to provide information about vaccineabout covid-19 to society.
Spokesperson for the Handling Task Force covid-19 dr. Reisa Brotoasmoro said that vaccine is an effort to prevent a disease.
“This vaccine is a preventive measure. So, it is given when we are healthy. It is different from the medicine that is given after we are sick. So, let’s continue to support it. Don’t know it is not immune, this is not just jargon,” Reisa said as quoted from Youtube of the Presidential Secretariat. , Friday, (27/11/2020).
In historical records in Indonesia, immunization began with smallpox immunization (1956), BCG immunization for tuberculosis (1973).
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Tetanus toxoid immunization in pregnant women (1974); diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) immunization in infants (1976); polio (1981); measles (1982); hepatitis B (1997); initiation of Haemophilus Influenza type B immunization in the form of vaccine pentavalen.
To vaccine HPV to prevent cervical cancer began to be demonstrated in 2016 for young women in a number of provinces.
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