Jakarta East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa has urged the central government to accelerate the distribution of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine supply in a bid to curb the spread of the disease in East Java.

“In my opinion, the need for vaccines is urgent because the transmission of FMD is very fast. Therefore, we hope that vaccine supply (distribution) from the central government would be accelerated while waiting for locally-made vaccines from the Veterinary Farma Center,” she noted in a statement here on Friday.

After as many as one thousand doses of the FMD vaccine from the Ministry of Agriculture for East Java arrived on Friday (June 17), the governor directly supervised and monitored the FMD vaccine injections to livestock ahead of Eid al-Adha.

Parawansa, accompanied by District Head of Sidoarjo, Ahmad Muhdlor Ali, visited a cattle breeding center in Taman Sidoarjo Sub-district, where 30 dairy cows were administered the vaccine.

Source: Antara News