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                                                                                                    A healthcare
                                                                                                    officer checking
                                                                                                    blood pressure of
                                                                                                    a vaccine recipient
                                                                                                    before getting the
                                                                                                    injection.

                                                                                                  Credit:
                                                                                                  Dharma W.









         The vaccine itself comes from the Latin term Variolae   from it. The viciousness of this virus not only knocked
         vaccines cinae (cowpox). According to the official   down the health sector, but also paralyzed the
         covid19.go.id website, vaccines are substances that   economic.
         are intentionally made to stimulate the formation of
         body immunity from certain diseases, so they can    The invention of COVID-19 vaccine becomes such
         prevent us from contracting the diseases.           a relieve to cope with the unfinished pandemic
                                                             situation. COVID-19 vaccination hopefully will trigger
         Today, 223 years after Jenner’s experiment, the     body  to  create  antibodies  to  fight  the  corona  virus,
         world’s  citizens  are  again  harmed  by  the  COVID-19   considering that many COVID-19 control policies have
         outbreak, caused by the severe acute respiratory    not been effective in preventing new transmissions.
         syndrome (SARS-Cov-2). The virus that first appeared
         in Wuhan, China quickly spread and became a global   The vaccination program immediately became the
         pandemic.  According  to a Worldmeter report, as    government priority. This program was marked by the
         of  August  7   2021,  this  epidemic  has  spread  to  222   first injection to President Joko Widodo, on January 13
                                                                                                            th
                    th
         countries, infecting more than 200 million people   at the State Palace. A day later, Jakarta government
         worldwide with death toll reaching more than 4      also  started  vaccination  program,  marked  by  the
         million.                                            injection shots to 20 officials and figures at City Hall
                                                                          th
                                                             on January 15 , 2021.
         In Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, COVID-19 has
         infected 827,842 residents, of which 12,682 have died   “The Jakarta provincial government supports the





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