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The country received its second batch of vaccines against the Sinovac coronavirus, the country’s ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health said, while the fourth most populous country in the world prepares a mass inoculation program.
The government received 1.8 million doses of the Chinese vaccine yesterday, adding to the 1.2 million it received on December 6.
Its goal is to vaccinate its population of 267 million people for free, starting with the frontline.
“Before people go back to work this month, vaccines can be distributed to 34 provinces so that we can start a vaccination program for health workers,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said yesterday in a live broadcast. .
“It will take us more than 12 months to complete this vaccination program.”
The country expects to receive coronavirus vaccines from AstraZeneca and Pfizer before the end of the year and by the first week of January respectively, having agreed to purchase 50 million doses of each vaccine.
Indonesia is still awaiting authorization to start using Sinovac vaccines.
In all, Indonesia has obtained 329 million doses of vaccines, including some 125 million from Sinovac, 50 million from Novavax and 54 million from the Covax global vaccine program.
So far, the country has recorded more than 727,000 Covid-19 cases and 21,700 deaths, among the highest figures in Asia. – Reuters
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