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“Hopefully, the drugs will help improve COVID-19 recovery rates and bring down the
mortality rate from the pandemic,” Penny said in a statement on Tuesday.

She said she hoped doctors and health workers would cooperate in monitoring the
efficacy and safety of those drugs under pharmacovigilance. The World Health
Organization defines pharmacovigilance (PV) as the science and activities relating to
the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any
other drug-related problem.

All pharmacovigilance reports will be received by the BPOM and evaluated
periodically. If there is an increasing trend of side effect, the BPOM will immediately
communicate the risk and revoke the EUA, the statement further said. Since March,
the BPOM periodically searches the internet to detect any disinformation regarding
drugs claimed to cure COVID-19.

It had found more than 46,000 links, including 2,645 links of people illegally selling
what they claim are COVID-19 drugs. Upon such findings, the BPOM recommends
that the Indonesian E-Commerce Association (IDEA) and Communications and
Information Ministry take down those links.