Day: March 5, 2022

Surabaya, E Java Surabaya city will receive 600 vials of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine from the Ministry of Health, the Health Office informed here on Saturday.

Head of the Surabaya Health Office, Nanik Sukristina, said that earlier, Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyadi had sent a letter to the Ministry of Health regarding vaccine supply.

“Then, the circular of the Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control from the Ministry of Health was issued on March 1, 2022. In the circular, it was stated that Surabaya city would receive an allocation of Moderna vaccines, with a total of 600 vials,” she informed.

Sukristina assured that Surabaya currently has sufficient vaccine stocks for administering booster vaccinations.

According to her, booster vaccinations in Surabaya are currently being run using the existing stock of Pfizer vaccines.

She said that the vaccine allocation was renewed on March 4, 2022, and the Surabaya Health Office is waiting for the vaccines to arrive.

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Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands Riau Islands Governor Ansar Ahmad, here on Saturday, urged the central government to revoke mandatory quarantine for international travelers visiting the region under the travel bubble scheme.

“We seek discretion from the central (government) concerning the travel bubble. If international travelers are free of quarantine while visiting Bali, Riau Islands should also be free,” he said.

The mandatory quarantine policy for international travelers may prove burdensome for tourists because they usually visit Riau Islands for four to seven days, he explained.

Currently, there are dozens of Singaporean tourists visiting Riau Islands after a gap of two years due to the pandemic, he highlighted.

Source: Antara News

Lebak, Banten Lebak district, Banten has recorded 120 additional COVID-19 recoveries, which have taken the total number of recoveries to 12,234, according to the district’s COVID-19 Handling Task Force.

Meanwhile, the death toll has reached 220, it added.

“Almost every day, there are COVID-19 patients who are reported to have recovered,” spokesperson for the task force, Dr. Firman Rahmatullah, said in Lebak on Saturday.

Those who have recovered after undergoing self-isolation at home were supervised by the local village and sub-district COVID-19 task forces, and an isolation center was also prepared by the regional government in the Banten BPPS Building, he informed.

Some COVID-19 hospital inpatients have also recovered, he said.

“Most of the patients who just recovered from COVID-19 were infected with the Omicron variant with symptoms of cough, runny nose, and fever,” he added.

The number of patients undergoing isolation has reduced dramatically, he said. Last week, there were 1,500 cases, however, now they are down to 996, he elaborated.

Source: Antara News

Batam, Riau Islands As many as 632 Indonesian migrant workers are undergoing COVID-19 quarantine in Batam city, Riau Islands province, in accordance with the health protocols, after arriving from Malaysia, an official said.

Chief of the Batam City Health Office Didi Kusmarjadi said on Saturday that 157 of the 632 migrant workers are quarantining at BP Batam flats, 244 at Batam City Administration’s flats, 97 at Putra Jaya flats, and 134 are conducting self-quarantine.

“The self-quarantine is at a hotel designated by the military,” he informed.

Source: Antara News

Meulaboh, Aceh An earthquake measuring 5.9 in magnitude shook Aceh Jaya district, Aceh province, around 19:02 p.m. local time on Saturday night.

“So far, there have been no reports of damage. We are still trying to collect data,” head of the Aceh Jaya Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency, Fajri, said from Meulaboh, West Aceh when contacted on Saturday night.

Source: Antara News