Indonesia is coming vaccine Covid-19 brand Pfizer for the first time on Thursday (18/8) tomorrow. For early arrivals, there will be 1,560,780 doses of the vaccine made in the United States arriving at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang.
In addition, Indonesia will also receive 1,017,500 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from tomorrow to Friday (19/8). The details, 450 thousand doses are Dutch donations will arrive tomorrow. Meanwhile, 467,500 are vaccines purchased directly by the government, which will arrive the day after tomorrow.
“That’s right, Pfizer will arrive with Air Hong Kong at 12:40 WIB,” said the Director of Information Empowerment at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Septriana Tangkary. Katadata.co.id, Wednesday (18/8).
The government has indeed started receiving 50 million doses of Pfizer Vaccine in August 2021. Delivery will be carried out in stages and used in the national vaccination program to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
However, the delivery of vaccines from the US to Indonesia is not carried out at once as much as 50 million, but in stages according to a predetermined schedule.
“Hopefully it will stay on schedule because 50 million won’t come all at once,” Nadia said last June 19.
Previously, the Food and Drug Administration (BPOM) issued an emergency use permit (EUA) for the Pfizer brand of Covid-19 vaccine on July 15. With the granting of this permit, a total of five vaccines have received the green light, namely Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Moderna, and Pfizer.
Head of BPOM Penny K. Lukito said the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine reached 100% for the 12 to 15 year age group. While the efficacy for ages 16 years and over reached 95.5%.
In comparison, Pfizer’s vaccine efficacy is also the highest compared to the four previously circulated vaccines. The Sinovac vaccine had 65.3% efficacy, AstraZeneca 62.1%, Sinopharm 78%, and Moderna 94.1%.
Penny said this vaccine can be used at the age of 12 years and the dose used is 0.3 milliliters in a span of three weeks. A review of the Pfizer vaccine has been carried out by the Expert Team of the National Vaccine Assessment Committee and the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ITAGI).
“Reactions include pain, fatigue, headache, joint and muscle pain, and fever,” said Penny.
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