Indonesia has received 2.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan, he told a virtual press conference that ANTARA joined from Jakarta on Thursday.
"The AstraZeneca vaccines are the grant and donation from the government of Japan. This is not the last. There will likely be another (vaccine consignment from Japan),” Sadikin said.
The Australian government has donated 77 million Australian dollars to help Indonesia procure at least 10 million vaccine doses through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, he informed.
The US government has also promised to provide Indonesia with four million Moderna vaccines thanks to the efforts of Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, he added.
Indonesia has 43 million vaccines in stock which would suffice for 30 million citizens, he informed, adding that the government has been striving to raise the country's daily vaccination rate.
President Joko Widodo has set a target of boosting Indonesia's daily vaccination rate to one million doses by July this year, Sadikin noted.
The targeted daily vaccination rate has been reached, with the government administering 1.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of June 26, 2021 alone with the help of the Indonesian military and police, local governments, and state and private enterprises, he added.
The COVID-19 pandemic initially struck the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019 and subsequently spread across the globe, including to countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Indonesian government announced the country's first confirmed cases on March 2, 2020.
Since then, the central and regional governments have striven incessantly to flatten the nation's coronavirus curve by applying healthcare protocols and public activity restrictions.
As part of the efforts to win the fight against COVID-19, the Indonesian government has also been conducting a nationwide vaccination program to contain infections since January 13, 2021.
As of June 20, 2021, Indonesia has received 104,728,400 COVID-19 vaccines, comprising 94.5 million Sinovac vaccines, 8.228 million AstraZeneca vaccines, and 2 million Sinopharm vaccines. (INE)
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