Jokowi Gets Chinese Vaccine on Live TV to Kick Off Southeast Asia’s Largest Rollout Bloomberg 1/13/2021 Claire Jiao and Arys Aditya
(Bloomberg) Indonesia kicked off its mass inoculation drive using a vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech Ltd. in a key test for the Chinese-developed shot amid questions over its efficacy.
President Joko Widodo received the vaccine in a televised ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta on Wednesday, becoming the first of 181.5 million people that the government seeks to inoculate by March 2022. Wearing his signature white shirt, the president had his blood pressure checked by doctors before getting an injection to his left arm.