Dita Alangkara
Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a spokeswoman for the Indonesian vaccination program, said on Thursday that those affected all worked in the Kudu region in central Java and had been vaccinated with the vaccine from the Chinese manufacturer Sinovac. However, all of them showed only mild symptoms. “Sinovac is effective against the new variants,” emphasized Tarmizi.
The island nation in Southeast Asia has seen rising numbers again in the past few days. On Thursday, the authorities reported more than 12,600 new infections – more than since January. In Kudus in particular, the hospitals hardly had any space for new patients, it was said.
With 270 million inhabitants, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country on earth. Authorities hope to vaccinate around 181 million citizens by early 2023 to achieve herd immunity. So far, only 22 million people have received at least one primary vaccination. A total of 1.9 million corona infections have been registered so far, and more than 53,000 deaths have been recorded in connection with Covid-19.