Indonesia launches one of world's biggest COVID-19 vaccination drives

January 13, 202110:52 AMUpdated 3 days ago
By Stanley Widianto

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia launched one of the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination campaigns on Wednesday with President Joko Widodo getting the first shot of a Chinese vaccine as his country fights one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Asia.

The drive aims to inoculate 181.5 million people, with the first to be vaccinated receiving the CoronaVac vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech, which Indonesia authorised for emergency use on Monday.

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Turkey launches mass coronavirus vaccination

January 15, 2021 08:28

DUBAI: Turkey has launched a nationwide vaccination program against COVID-19 after the government approved emergency use of China’s Sinovac, local daily Hurriyet Daily reported.

More than 1 million health workers in the country were among the first to get the jab, after the country’s Science Board members were inoculated live on Jan. 13.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received jab the next day.

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