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Like Atomic Bomb, Covid-19 Vaccine Will End ‘War’

The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), continues its efforts to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, not only by spraying disinfectant and organizing education and training, but also by trying to help invent a Covid-19 vaccine.

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An scientist works at a laboratory in the MIGAL Research Institute in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, on March 1. MIGAL is one of the institutions trying to develop a vaccine for Covid-19.

Like the atomic bomb invented by Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer in 1945, which later ended World War II, the invention of a much-awaited vaccine for SARS CoV-2 — the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease — was expected to put an end to the pandemic.

That statement came from Jusuf Kalla, the two-time vice president of Indonesia, who is now chairman of the PMI, in a speech during the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) and the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology on Wednesday (15/4/2020) at PMI headquarters in Jakarta. Eijkman is a molecular biology research institution under the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education.

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