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View all search resultsSinovac vaccine proven to be good: BPOM
Indonesia has firm orders of around 160 million vaccine doses, of which 140 million are manufactured by Sinovac Biotech.
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total of 1.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech are currently stored in a warehouse of state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java, after being flown in to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, on Dec. 6.
Indonesia has firm orders of around 160 million vaccine doses, 140 million of which are manufactured by Sinovac Biotech. The remaining orders were given to Novavax, a United States firm, officials have said.
The government is waiting for the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) to issue emergency use authorization (EUA) for Sinovac's CoronaVax vaccine, which, unlike some other candidate vaccines, has not disclosed interim efficacy data.
The BPOM said it was expecting the interim results in January next year.
BPOM head Penny Kusumastuti Lukito said in a video published on the Forum Merdeka Barat 9 YouTube channel on Thursday that the agency was currently observing Sinovac's CoronaVax vaccine.
She explained that the observation period usually took one, three and six months, hence the EUA could not be released soon.
However, she said Sinovac’s vaccine met the quality standards for producing medicines.
