JAKARTA — The first batch of Covid-19 vaccines has arrived in Indonesia.
The world’s largest archipelagic state is now drafting the rules governing their distribution across the country, a task that is to be completed within two weeks.
At about 9pm local time on Sunday night (Dec 6), 1.2 million doses of the vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech reached Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Airport. From there, they were taken to Bandung in West Java province to be stored at state drugmaker Bio Farma’s facilities.
Another 1.8 million doses of the Sinovac vaccinewill arrive in January.
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