JAKARTA — Indonesia and Thailand are considering offering a booster shot to their medical workers immunized with Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine, a move likely to reduce public trust in the Chinese product that has been their main inoculation tool.
Some countries including Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have already started giving a booster shot to those inoculated with Chinese vaccines amid concerns that they may not be as effective against new and more transmissible coronavirus variants.
But the challenges facing Southeast Asia are much bigger. Many countries in the region rely heavily on Chinese vaccines due to tight supplies of Western products, and have low vac…
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