Day: August 5, 2021

Minister outlines medical waste management plan amid pandemic

Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has said immediate efforts will be made to manage medical hazardous and toxic (B3) waste generated amid the pandemic, in accordance with President Joko Widodo’s instructions. “We will prepare incinerators to be placed in priority locations – at the hospitals,

16 percent of Tangerang residents receive first COVID-19 vaccine shot

As many as 358,316 residents or some 16 percent of the two million people targeted for vaccination in Tangerang District, Banten Province, have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Tangerang District Health Office. Meanwhile, the number of residents, who were fully vaccinated or received two

Monitoring of health protocols intensified at 10 markets in Tangerang

City-owned market operator PD Pasar Tangerang City, Banten, has stepped up monitoring activities in 10 traditional markets during the level 4 community activities restriction. Director of PD Pasar Titin Mulyati said in a statement obtained here on Thursday that 10 posts and Health Protocols Monitoring Team were formed and deployed at markets

Minister presses for quickly achieving child vaccination target

Women Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Minister Bintang Puspayoga emphasized that the government had targeted to expedite vaccination for children in the age bracket of 12-17 years to re-open schools for commencement of face-to-face learning. “The government is accelerating vaccination drives in schools to reach the target,” Puspayoga noted in

The Aggravating state of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir

Nelson Mandela once said, “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”. This is what is happening in the Illegally Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIO&JK) for the last 74 years. The Jammu and Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India has been on the agenda of

C Java commences administration of booster vaccine for health workers

The Central Java provincial government began offering booster vaccinations, or the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine injections, to health workers. “The booster vaccination using the Moderna vaccine for health workers has commenced. Earlier, at the Dr. Kariadi Hospital, the vaccination has begun. Other areas are expected to follow soon,” Central