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Indonesia warns of big fines for refusing COVID-19 vaccine, in a world first
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is threatening residents with fines of up to 5 million rupiah ($450) for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, an unusually stiff penalty aimed at ensuring compliance with a new regulation making jabs mandatory.
Key points:
- Indonesia is fighting one of Asia’s biggest and most stubborn coronavirus epidemics
- Nearly 34,000 Indonesians are known to have died from the virus
- The new regulation follows months of public scepticism about whether the vaccines are safe
Deputy Jakarta governor Ahmad Riza Patria said city authorities were merely following rules and such sanctions were a last resort in Jakarta, which accounts for about a quarter of the archipelago nation’s more than 1.2 million coronavirus infections.
“If you reject it,…
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