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View all search resultsAs the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic at an unequal pace, Indonesia has called for greater vaccine cooperation among partner countries while also addressing various security issues on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Official footage of President Joko Widodo's visit to East Kalimantan this week, which has since been edited, sparked anger after senior officials in the President's entourage were caught on tape claiming to have received a third “booster” shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently reserved only for health workers.
Authorities kickstarted the program using the American Moderna vaccine last week, covering some 3,820 health professionals working in 14 Health Ministry hospitals in Jakarta and its satellite cities.
The Health Ministry has announced it will seek to administer a first COVID-19 vaccine dose to 181.5 million Indonesians by the end of the year, three months earlier than the initial plan, even though the current drive has covered less than a quarter of the elderly population.
The government is simultaneously scaling up its efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines, expand the national vaccine drive and impose new restrictions amid the surging transmission rate that is leaving hospitals and health workers overwhelmed.
Prefacing his announcement that Indonesia now has 105 million vaccine bulk units after the latest shipment arrived on Wednesday, the health minister cautioned that rigorously following the health protocols was still needed whether people had been vaccinated or not.
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