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Indonesia starts massive Covid-19 vaccination drive
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Fri, Jan 15 2021 3:36 IST |
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Indonesia reports 4,127 fresh Covid cases. Image Source: IANS News
Jakarta, Jan 15 : Indonesia launched its massive Covid-19 vaccination program with health workers as the main priority group, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot developed by China s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
On Thursday morning, a mass vaccination was held at state-run Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in central Jakarta, Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 25 health workers at the hospital have received doses of the Sinovac vaccines, Lies Dina Liastuti, the hospital s director, told a press conference, adding that about 6,000 health workers nursing patients at the hospital are to be vaccinated periodically.
A health worker receives a shot of Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. - AP
JAKARTA (Xinhua): A few minutes after receiving a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday (JAN 14), Indonesian Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono tried to feel the effect to his body. It doesn t feel anything (pain), said Saksono at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, a government-run hospital in Jakarta.
Indonesia launched its massive Covid-19 vaccination programme on Thursday with health workers as the main priority group, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot developed by China s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
2021-01-14 10:36:07 GMT2021-01-14 18:36:07(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) A few minutes after receiving a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Indonesian Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono tried to feel the effect to his body. It doesn t feel anything (pain), said Saksono at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, a government-run hospital in Jakarta.
Indonesia launched its massive COVID-19 vaccination program on Thursday with health workers as the main priority group, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot developed by China s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
Indonesia is targeting to vaccinate 181.5 million people until next year, in order to create herd immunity against the pandemic. Controlling the outbreak is a key factor to recover its economy which contracted sharply last year.