TODAY’S PAPER EDITION: HEADLINE: COVID antibodies now almost universal
A woman (left) reacts while receiving a Pfizer booster vaccine for the COVID-19 in Jakarta, on March 29, 2022. The government has accelerated vaccination programs ahead of Idul Fitri in May, when many people leave the capital and return back to their hometowns.(AFP/Adek Berry)
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Almost all Indonesians have developed antibodies against COVID-19, according to the latest serosurvey conducted by the Health Ministry and the School of Public Health at the University of Indonesia in July.
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Researchers examined blood samples from 20,501 people in 100 cities across the archipelago and found that around 98.5 percent of them had antibodies against the virus, due to vaccination or past infections.
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The figure is almost 10 percentage points higher than the 87.8 percent recorded in a previous survey in December which involved the same respondents.
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Nina A. Loasana
The Jakarta Post
Sat, August 13 2022
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