Published on: Saturday, January 30, 2021
By: Antara News
Researchers in the state-run vaccine maker PT Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java.
JAKARTA: The second dose of China’s Sinovac vaccine has been administered across the country since January 27, mostly to healthcare workers at the frontlines of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since the first coronavirus infections emerged on March 2, 2020, Indonesia has chalked up 1,037,99 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 29,331 deaths, according to data recorded as of January 28, 2021.
Under its vaccine programme, the government is targeting to inoculate 181.5 million people, free of charge, out of the total population of 271 million.
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Indonesia received 15 million doses of the bulk vaccine from Sinovac to be manufactured into individual doses by Bio Farma. The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) has issued a certificate for Good Manufacturing Practices (CPOB), or a permit, to Bio Farma to commence the production of C