Health
Indonesia relies on vaccine rollout as officials lose ‘control’ of pandemic – Financial Times
With Covid-19 cases rocketing, Jakarta bets on inoculating 180m citizens across 10,000 islands
Indonesia has “lost control” of its coronavirus response, experts have warned, complicating a planned mass rollout of China’s Sinovac vaccine to vanquish the pandemic in the world’s fourth most populous country.
The south-east Asian nation has been battling one of the region’s most stubborn Covid-19 outbreaks, attributable to ineffectual lockdowns and contact tracing. Last week, it shattered its daily case record on consecutive days, culminating with 10,617 infections on Friday.
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