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RECENTLY, there has been a discourse about the COVID-19 vaccine certificate to be used as a condition for traveling outside the city or taking public transportation such as airplanes. Do we really need this COVID-19 vaccine certificate?
According to Professor Zubairi Djoerban, this is an interesting discourse, in my imagination, prospective aircraft passengers must show a vaccine certificate at the control department and no more testing or quarantine upon arrival. In fact, it is not yet known, to what extent the vaccine prevents recipients from transmitting the corona virus.
“Therefore, before this policy appears, we must first know when the person will be protected from infection after being vaccinated. If we are vaccinated now, will it be immune the next day? It’s not. One week? Not yet. A month? That just appears decent immunity,” he said.
Professor Zubairi Djoerban explained that that two, it had to be rigidly calculated if this policy was to be made. It is safe, two months after the first vaccine or at least two weeks after the second vaccine, then the vaccine recipient is sufficiently protected from COVID-19. What is clear, there is no certainty whether the recipient of the vaccine did not transmit the virus to people.
“Indeed, his body is protected and immune. However, around the mouth and nose, some experts suspect, there are still viruses that can be transmitted to other people. This means that the prokes must be adhered to. The health protocol must still be carried out because there are still possibilities of transmission,” he noted.
Zubairi Djoerban added, for example, that it is possible for the South African corona virus to infect people who have been vaccinated by AstraZeneca. This vaccine has been proven to be unable to protect the variant from South Africa. Based on that, more attention should be paid to aircraft flights from Indonesia to South Africa or vice versa. This is because if you use AstraZeneca’s vaccine certificate, it will not be “effective”.
It’s different if Sinovac, he continued, this vaccine is actually proven to be able to fight variants from England and South Africa. What must be understood, the corona virus can be transmitted when the person is not sick or does not even know they have it. This is known as asymptomatic transmission. Well, vaccines help solve this problem. Vaccines help in what ways?
“Yes, it prevents you from becoming seriously ill if you contract COVID-19, so it doesn’t burden the health system. Finally, if this certificate policy is born, it is also necessary to ensure that there is no discrimination for people who cannot be vaccinated. For example, people with chronic or uncontrolled acute disease. The policy must also be fair to them,” he concluded. [bisnis.com/photo special]
