Before the pandemic, Mamik Nariati’s five grandchildren were given free immunisations for diseases like polio, mumps and Hepatitis B at their school in the city of Surabaya in East Java.
“But since the online school started last year, there is no more immunisation programme,” she told Al Jazeera.
Sarigita Andika Wati, a mother of three in the Balinese regency of Tabanan, has a similar story: “My kids can’t go to school so they couldn’t get the free immunisations.”
The youngsters are among 800,000 Indonesian children who missed out on routine vaccinations last year due to pandemic service disruptions – a jump of 40 percent compared with the previous year – according to data compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.
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Indonesia begins inoculating pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, kids
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A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a woman during a mass vaccination campaign in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 26, 2021. (Photo by Horimam B./Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Jakarta, June 30 : Indonesia has launched a Covid-19 vaccination program for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and children aged 12 to 18, Vice President Ma ruf Amin announced here.
In his announcement on Tuesday, Amin said he welcomed the vaccine rollout for the above mentioned categories, who are all listed as vulnerable to Covid-19, adding that inoculation is a game changer in dealing with the pandemic, reports Xinhua news agency.