Speaking at the G20 Presidency Sherpa Meeting on December 7,Hartarto said that one of Indonesia’s priorities is consolidating the globalhealth architecture.
He recommended countries, with a population of 100 million,to have at least one vaccine production centre.
Hartarto emphasised that problems related to vaccinationmust be addressed immediately since inequitable access to vaccines will giverise to new problems, such as the emergence of the new variant called Omicron.
The Omicron variant was first detected in South Africa, with avaccination rate of only 24 percent, while the entire African continent onlyhad a seven-percent inoculation rate.
A lingering pandemic, coupled with the emergence of theOmicron variant, would have damaging effects on the people's lives and disrupteconomic recovery, he said.
To this end, Hartarto highlighted the need for collaborationat the global level, including through the G20, to make stronger and moreconcrete breakthrough steps for the world./.