Booster Vaksin, Menkes Berencana Mulai Awal 2022
Indonesia to Start COVID-19 Boosters after 50% of Public Vaccinated
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PEMERINTAH berencana melakukan booster vaksin Covid-19 atau dosis vaksin ketiga pada 2022, setelah 50% dari masyarakat Indonesia telah divaksin penuh.
Hal ini diungkapkan oleh Menteri Kesehatan RI Budi Gunadi Sadikin dalam Rapat Kerja [Raker] Komisi IX DPR RI, Jakarta, pada Senin [8/11].
Budi mengatakan pemberian booster vaksin di angka 50%, karena khawatir ketidakadilan soal vaksin di sejumlah negara.
"Isu ketidakadilan atau etika tersebut begitu tinggi di dunia, karena beberapa negara belum mendapatkan banyak tembakan pertama," katanya.
Dia juga menjelaskan rencana pemberian booster vaksin secara gratis pada lansia warga yang terdaftar sebagai peserta Penerima Bantuan Iuran [PBI] BPJS Kesehatan, sementara warga lainnya yang tidak terdaftar PBI harus membayar untuk mendapat booster vaksin.
Sebagai Informasi, Australia mulai memberikan booster pada hari Senin, sementara Inggris juga telah setuju untuk memberikannya. Thailand telah memberikan suntikan booster kepada penerima vaksin Sinovac atas kekhawatiran tentang resistensi terhadap varian Delta, seperti dikutip Reuters yang dilansir MailOnline.
INDONESIA plans to give booster shots to the general public after 50% of its population has been fully vaccinated, its health minister said on Monday, which he expects to happen at the end of next month.
Indonesia, the world´s fourth most populous country and once Asia´s COVID-19 epicenter, has inoculated 29% of its population of 270 million people, using a variety of vaccine brands.
Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a parliamentary hearing the government decided on boosters at the 50% mark due to vaccine inequity concerns at home or abroad.
"Issues of injustice or ethics are so high in the world, because some countries haven´t gotten a lot of first shots," he said.
Given for free, Budi said the plan prioritises the elderly and the poor who are insured by the government, while the rest of the population may have to pay for them. Many health workers have already received boosters.
Australia began https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-begins-vaccine-booster-rollout-more-curbs-ease-sydney-2021-11-07 giving boosters on Monday, while Britain https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-allows-early-booking-booster-shots-speed-up-rollout-2021-11-06 and Germany https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/with-fourth-wave-raging-germany-agrees-booster-shots-all-2021-11-05 have also agreed to give them. Thailand has given booster shots to recipients of the Sinovac vaccine over concerns about resistance to the Delta variant. (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Martin Petty)
