Indonesia president launches COVID-19 inoculation drive with Chinese vaccine

JAKARTA, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo received the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Wednesday, as the government launched an ambitious programme to inoculate 181.5 million people in the world’s fourth most populous country.

Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, was given an injection with the CoronaVac vaccine made by China’s Sinovac Biotech in the presidential palace in Jakarta.

Reporting by Fransiska Nangoy, Gayatri Suroyo Editing by Ed Davies

source: reuters.com