An official from the Intelligence Service Office (BIN) has urged the Tabanan regional government to accelerate the Covid-19 vaccine distribution before the vaccines expire.
The Head of the Bali BIN, Brigjen Pol Hadi Purnomo, stated that the Tabanan regional government was instructed to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccination program. This is because both the Sinovac and Astra Zeneca vaccines stored for their residents will expire by December 2021.
Purnomo supervised the vaccination program to ensure that all residents received a Covid-19 vaccine.
“The vaccine will expire by December, so I urge the local authority to accelerate the vaccine distribution. We don’t want them to go to waste, and they are also difficult to dispose of,” Brigjen Pol Purnomo said on Tuesday (14/12) in Tabanan.
The Bali BIN had previously received 13,600 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, but only 70 percent were distributed.
The Regional Secretary of Tabanan Region, I Gede Susila, confirmed that 95 percent of Tabanan residents had received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, 88 percent have been fully vaccinated.
“The gap between those who received the first and second dose is around 7 percent. We’ve been tracking down those unvaccinated residents to reach our target faster,” Susila said. He ensured that that vaccination program in Tabanan would finish by the end of December 2021 as the office would focus on distributing the vaccine to elementary school children by January 2022.
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miruna
Wednesday 22nd of December 2021
Well, Romanian authorities simply re-labelled the doses so to extend the valability. Also they performed the change in the system they informed. It was officially announced by the Covid Czar, is not a conspiracy, is official. They said the doses were stored in proper conditions so the valability can be extended with a few months. They didn't specify if the doses were already expired or about to expire, so we don't know this except that all doses in Romania can be expired as far as we know now, because no one will be able to tell which ones were re-labelled.
Wayan Bo
Saturday 18th of December 2021
Is BIN also knowing that current vaccines have more or less 0% efficiency against Omicron, therefore vaccines need to be updated.
Neil gill
Friday 17th of December 2021
Isn't that what you are supposed to do, is pump it into as many arms as you can before it expires.... Well done great thinking.. You should get a pay rise
Martina
Saturday 18th of December 2021
@Neil gill, haha.
Alan
Friday 17th of December 2021
That is crazy they need it in arms not storage ! do they really want Bali to get back to some sort of normality it makes us wonder after reading things like this.
Martina
Saturday 18th of December 2021
@Alan, arms? Ate u kidding? That stuff kills. Normalacy