JAKARTA – Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine after Indonesia approved it for emergency use and began efforts to vaccine millions of people in the world’s fourth most populated country.Conditional use of the Sinovac Biotech Ltd.
vaccine is scheduled to be rolled out in the coming months with health care workers, civil servants and other at-risk populations prioritized first.
It will be free for all Indonesian citizens.Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Indonesia’s health minister, said the country needs to vaccinate 181.5 million people, or roughly 67% of its population, to reach herd immunity.