Day: August 22, 2022

President Director of state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma Honesti Basyir on Monday announced plans for merging a state-owned hospital holding with a state-owned pharmaceutical holding to support the national health security program.”The pla…

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hit the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Monday evening, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).The quake, which hit at 15:36 WIB (West Indonesia Standard Time), was centered 74 kilomet…

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) laid stress on the need to suppress early marriage in children in order to reduce the stunting prevalence rate by at least three percent in 2022.”President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged that the …

State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma is targeting to get emergency-use authorization for the domestically produced Indonesia Vaccine or Indovac from the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) in September 2022.”We are almost done and in the…

Five G20 members—Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa—have agreed to collaborate to establish a vaccine manufacturing, treatment, and diagnostic center to mitigate future pandemics.”To prepare for the next pandemic and global health th…

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 3,300 on Monday, bringing the total tally to 6,318,857, the COVID-19 Handling Task Force informed.According to data from the task force, Jakarta contributed the most additional cases at 1,…

The Indonesian Epidemiologists’ Association (PAEI) has urged citizens to remain alert for the symptoms of monkeypox in order to prevent the spread of the disease.”Because the first case of monkeypox has been found in Indonesia, the public must know the…