Indonesia will receive 50 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly made by Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) as the nation grapples with a surge in cases.
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Pandemi COVID-19 sangat mempengaruhi sektor kesehatan di Indonesia, negara dengan ekonomi terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Salah satu dampak yang paling serius adalah tingginya angka infeksi dan kematian di kalangan tenaga kesehatan.
Indonesia will face “an explosion of cases” if health authorities don’t take action, epidemiologists have warned, following a jump in cases on the country’s two most populous islands.
Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, a different health threat emerged that caused global alarm. But it would take decades for an effective treatment for HIV and AIDS to become widely available, and there is still no vaccine.
Trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region agreed Saturday on achieving a strong economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, starting with accelerating vaccine distribution.
“I prefer to treat COVID-19 patients (rather) than HIV-patients.” It is difficult to imagine a health care worker saying this to a patient, but it is evidence of the stigma that continues to surround HIV-patients in Indonesia.
The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place from May 24 to June 1. This year’s gathering is likely to be all about COVID-19, but here I want to talk about a different disease—leprosy—and a resolution that was adopted at the WHA exactly 30 years ago.
Ground-breaking studies published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine and PLOS Medicine have found large numbers of malaria parasites hiding in the human spleen where they actively multiply in a previously unrecognised life cycle.
In August 2020 polls suggested that 27 percent of Indonesians were hesitant to receive the vaccine and by December the results of a phone survey suggested only 37% were sure they would accept vaccination when it was offered.
Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) memperluas sasaran vaksinasi Covid-19 kepada kelompok umur pra-lansia dimulai dari usia 50 tahun ke atas.
If her colleagues hadn’t directed her attention towards it, Saraswati Regina Putri may have never given telehealth a second thought. But with Read more
Indonesian President Joko Widodo or Jokowi urges world leaders to take real actions in providing fair access for all countries to get Covid-19 vaccines.
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, known as Kadin, suggested that private companies could help move things along by paying for vaccines procured by the government and inoculating their employees and their families.
The emergence of new COVID-19 variants is expected to weigh on Indonesia’s economic recovery and may cause the government to miss its target of growth between 4.5 and 5.3 percent this year.
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, plagued by pollution, flooding and heatwaves, topped the ranking of more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion at “high” or “extreme” risk.
An analysis of Indonesian healthcare workers inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech showed it was 98% effective at preventing death and 96% effective at preventing hospitalisation, a health ministry official said.
