Indonesia's mass vaccination plan in December faces delay
Jakarta
INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo's push for mass vaccinations to be rolled out in December faces a delay after the country's food and drugs agency warned it will not be able to give emergency authorisation until late January due to incomplete data.
In an interview last week, the president said that Indonesia aimed to start mass vaccination for medical staff and other frontline workers next month in a bid to suppress a surging Covid-19 caseload and support a battered economy.
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