09-11-2021, 08:35 AM
Indonesia plans to give booster shots to the public after 50 per cent of its population have been fully vaccinated, its Health Minister said yesterday, which he expects to happen at the end of next month.
Indonesia, once Asia's Covid epicentre, has inoculated 29 per cent of its population of 270 million people, using a variety of vaccine brands.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a parliamentary hearing the government decided on boosters at the 50 per cent mark due to vaccine inequity concerns at home or aboard.
"Issues of injustice or ethics are so high in the world, because some countries haven't gotten a lot of first shots," he said....
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper.
Indonesia, once Asia's Covid epicentre, has inoculated 29 per cent of its population of 270 million people, using a variety of vaccine brands.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a parliamentary hearing the government decided on boosters at the 50 per cent mark due to vaccine inequity concerns at home or aboard.
"Issues of injustice or ethics are so high in the world, because some countries haven't gotten a lot of first shots," he said....
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper.