The Indonesian government received 1.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in finished form from producer Pfizer, Thursday afternoon, Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono stated.

“Today, we have received nearly 1.2 million doses of the vaccine from Pfizer in finished form. The exact figure is approximately 1,195,740 doses of the vaccine,” Harbuwono noted while giving a virtual speech on the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine.

With the arrival of the vaccine, Indonesia has around 220 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in finished and raw material form. Harbuwono later explained that Pfizer had earlier delivered 1.5 million doses of the finished vaccine in Indonesia on August 22. The arrival of an additional 1.2 million doses of vaccine this time comes from the total orders of 54.6 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Meanwhile, based on reports on the number of vaccine doses arriving in Indonesia as of August 30, the total vaccine arrivals reached 217,936,360 doses comprising 124.5 million doses in the form of raw materials or bulk and more than 64 million in the form of finished product. Sinovac provided more than 153.9 million vaccine doses in raw material form and 28 million vaccine doses in finished form, while AstraZeneca provided more than 18.2 million doses in finished form, 8.2 million doses in finished form from Sinopharm, eight million other doses from Moderna in finished form, and 1.5 million doses from Pfizer.

“For Pfizer, we will get approximately 54.6 million doses. With about 1.5 million received, today is the second arrival of 1.2 million doses,” he remarked.

All vaccines that arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport were then sent to the packaging and production site at PT Bio Farma Bandung to be immediately distributed to various regions in Indonesia.

Source: Antara News