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          central government’s program with hopes to reduce   of COVID-19 vaccine is the inactivated SARS-CoV2
          the transmission and mortality rate, as well as strive   Virus (antigen), Al (OH3) or aluminium hydroxide as
          for the herd immunity,” said Jakarta governor Anies   an adjuvant to strengthen the immune response,
          Baswedan at City Hall.                             sodium chloride (salt) to set the vaccine solution
                                                             isotonic, and disodium hydrogen phosphate to
          From number of events occurred in several countries,   support the power of hydrogen (pH). After our body
          COVID-19 vaccination is proven able to reduce and   getting a vaccine injection, he explained, vaccine will
          minimize  the  symptoms  and  risk  of  death  due  to   stimulate the body’s immunity against SARS-CoV-2.
          COVID-19. Citing the page of the Indonesian Ministry
          of Health, based on reports from case studies in the   One of vaccines that have been distributed is Sinovac,
          UK and America, COVID-19 vaccine is able to reduce   which was declared to have efficacy up to 65.3%
          the risk of death by 75-85%.                           during clinical trials, means there is a decrease
                                                                       in cases up to 65.3% in the group who gets
           Pursuing Vaccination                                            the vaccine and who doesn’t.
                                             #ayov aksindulu
                                            #letsgetvaccinated
          To reduce transmissions and                                           To achieve the efficacy rate,
          deaths due to COVID-19,                                                vaccine must be administered
          Jakarta   government    is                                              twice,  one  dose  each  and
          striving  to   overcome                                                  given within a gap of 2-4
          the problem, which has                                                    weeks.  The dosing  and
          been spreading rapidly                                                    intervals are based on the
          throughout the city. One                                                   results  of  a  study  which
          of the ways is to conduct                                                  states   that   antibody
          COVID-19    vaccination                                                   titer can reach optimal
          programs every day by                                                     levels after two doses of
          involving many parties.                                                   injections.

          Based   on    data    from                                              Iwan Setiawan ensured that
          Indonesian  Health  Ministry,                                         before carrying out distribution,
          vaccination target in Jakarta is                                    COVID-19   vaccine  had   been
                                        th
          8,395,427 people. Until August 6                                  clinically tested by a special team
          2021, total participants for the first dose                    from  across agencies.  During  the
          of vaccination has reached 97.84 percent                  monitoring phase of the clinical trial, the team
          or 8,213,765, which exceeded the target of 7.5 million   found side effects of vaccine: mild side effects include
          given by President Joko Widodo.                    pain at the injection site, muscle pain (myalgia) and
                                                             fever. Basically, the fever is mild and will disappear
          The  vaccines  used in  the  vaccination  program  in   after 1-3 days.
          Jakarta are CoronaVac and AstraZeneca. The two
                                                                         th
          vaccines were brought in by PT Bio Farma, a state-  As of July 24  2021, total finished and bulk vaccines
          owned enterprise (BUMN) which is also tasked with   altogether have reached 86.9 million doses.
          conducting clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines    According to Iwan Setiawan, as many as 65.8
          imported by the government.                        million doses of it have been distributed to people
                                                             throughout Indonesia. The rest are still waiting for the
          Head of Corporate Communication  PT Bio Farma      release certificate from the Indonesia Food and Drug
          (Persero), Iwan Setiawan explained that the content   Monitoring Agency (BPOM).








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