All About Covid-19 Booster Vaccines That Will Be Provided Starting January 2022
1/01/2022
The presence of the Omicron variant makes people worried because the full dose vaccine cannot provide as effective protection as other variants. But studies have shown that using a booster can restore protection. Indonesia itself plans to start a vaccine program booster on January 12, 2022.
If the standard vaccination program is provided free of charge for all Indonesian people, then for the provision of booster there this is a different mechanism. This time, only a part of the community will be able to get vaccine a booster free . The rest have to pay for themselves.
So, so as not to be curious and later get caught up in hoaxes, here are a number of facts about vaccines booster in Indonesia that you need to know.
1. Only free for the elderly and PBI BPJS Health
The most basic thing that distinguishes the program booster from previous vaccinations is the cost. In giving the third dose of vaccine, it will be divided into two groups, namely the free one and the self-paid one. So, the vaccine booster is no longer free for all Indonesians like the regular two-dose vaccine.
This free third dose of vaccine will only be given to the elderly and the public who receive contribution assistance (PBI) from the Health Social Security Administering Body. While the rest have to pay for themselves to be able to get a vaccine booster .
2. There are five candidates for vaccine booster
Until now, what type of vaccine will be used as a booster has not been announced. Currently, the government is still waiting for the final results from the researchers. Even so, there are five types of vaccines that are rumored to be used.
The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) said that currently these five types of vaccines are in the process of being tested. The vaccines are Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Coronavac/PT Bio Farma vaccine, Zifivax, and Sinopharm. The latest news, BPOM revealed that four types of vaccines will get an emergency use permit (EUA) which can be released early next week.
He explained that for EUA the vaccine booster to be released was only homolugous. That means the vaccines booster that are licensed are those that have been used for the first and second doses. So, for example the first and second doses use Sinovac, then the third dose is also Sinovac.
In addition to using a booster homologous (the first to third vaccine types are the same), the government also has a heterologous scheme. In this second scheme, the third type of vaccine given will be different from the first and second doses. Both schemes have been approved by the National Immunization Expert Advisory Committee or ITAGI.
3. Price
The question of how much to pay for each type of vaccine is booster still unknown. However, the Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, once said that the price would not exceed Rp. 300 thousand.
Meanwhile, based on the Vaccine Market Dashboard from the official Unicef website, the price per dose of various types of vaccines that are planned to be used as boosters in Indonesia is quite diverse. Ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands.
For example, Sinovac is priced at USD 13.6 (Rp 191 thousand) to USD 17 (Rp 239 thousand) for each dose. Then Sinopharm USD 9 (Rp 126 thousand) to USD 36 (Rp (506 thousand), then Pfizer USD 6.75 (Rp 94 thousand) to USD 23.15 (Rp 325 thousand), and AstraZeneca per dose is priced at USD 2.19 (Rp 31 thousand) to USD 7.95 (Rp 112 thousand).(*)
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