Indonesia Calls for Equal Access to Vaccines
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for equal access to vaccines for all countries. The world would not be free of COIVD-19 as long as there were countries that had not been able to handle the pandemic.
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People wait for their turns to get Covid-19 vaccine shots at the RSUD Kembangan hospital in West Jakarta, on Tuesday (23/2/2021). One hundred seventy-three elderly people had been registered to get their vaccine shots at that hospital on Tuesday (23/2/2021). The target for the second phase of the vaccination program is to inoculate more than 38 million people, which includes 17.4 million people working in public and essential services and 21.5 million elderly. (This caption was translated by Kurniawan H. Siswoko)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for equal access to vaccines for all countries. The world would not be free of COIVD-19 as long as there were countries that had not been able to handle the pandemic.
BANDUNG, KOMPAS — The Indonesian government has once again called for the importance of equal access to the COVID-19 vaccines. Close cooperation between nations was necessary to overcome the pandemic, because the world would not be free of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus if there was even one country that was not safe.