JAKARTA —Indonesia is in talks with China on getting as many as 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to plug a gap in deliveries afterdelays in the arrivals of AstraZeneca shots, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Wednesday.
He told a parliamentary hearing that Indonesia would receive 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine via a bilateral deal in 2021, instead of 50 million doses initially agreed.
The remaining 30 million doses were due to be shipped by the second quarter of 2022, he said.
Budi said the government had “embarked on a discussion with the Chinese government to ask for an additional 90-100 million (doses).”
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