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Drugstores running out of three COVID-19 drugs: ministry

The Health Ministry on Wednesday afternoon flagged a shortage in stocks of three types of therapeutic drugs used in the ...

Health Ministry issues guidelines on vaccination of children

The Health Ministry has issued guidelines on the vaccination of 12- to 17-year-olds against COVID-19. “With ...

Health office cautions of mounting COVID-19 cases involving children

The Jakarta Provincial Health Office has raised caveat on the escalating number of COVID-19 cases involving children in ...

Health Ministry removes domicile requirement for COVID-19 vaccination

The Indonesian Health Ministry has removed the domicile requirement for COVID-19 vaccinations at all government-owned ...

COVID-19 delta variant tends to infect patients under 18: Ministry

The Indonesian Health Ministry reported that the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tended to infect ...

Celltrion confirms neutralising potency against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants with anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment regdanvimab (CT-P59)

Celltrion Group today announced that CT-P59, an anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate, has confirmed ...

Health Ministry, Halodoc jointly organize drive-thru vaccination

The Health Ministry, in collaboration with online health service provider, Halodoc, has prepared services for the ...

Second vaccine dose may raise antibody level to 99%: official

People who receive the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine can expect their antibody level to increase to up to 99 ...

Elderly Indonesians to join second-phase vaccination program

Some elderly Indonesians aged 60 years and above will get inoculated in the second phase of the vaccination program, ...

248 volunteers have received Sinovac vaccine injections in Bandung

The Padjadjaran University's Research Team for the Clinical Trials of Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine revealed that 248 ...

110 volunteers of COVID-19 vaccine trials in Bandung are healthy

The Indonesian health authority in Bandung City confirmed that 110 volunteers of the phase III clinical trials of the ...

Jakarta records 637 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday

The Jakarta authorities reported, Sunday, that the capital city witnessed the addition of 637 fresh COVID-19 cases over ...

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Indonesia committed to simultaneously handling TB and COVID-19

Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelagic nation, with over 17 thousand islands and a population of some 267 ...

Indonesia ranks third among TB high-burden nations: president

President Joko Widodo drew attention to the harrowing reality that Indonesia ranked third for the incidence of ...

Jokowi cautions of high TB case count among productive-age populace

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has given a cautionary reminder of the high number of tuberculosis (TB) cases among ...