Indonesia to receive 45 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in August

By Metro US Posted on July 26, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares a dose of the Sinovac’s vaccine before giving it to a healthcare worker at the emergency hospital for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the Athlete Village in Jakarta

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is expecting to receive 45 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in August, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a virtual news conference on Monday.

They will include vaccines from Sinovac, Moderna and Pfizer, he said.

Budi also said that hospital bed occupancies have gone down in its capital city of Jakarta, but are rising outside of Java island.

(Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Writing by Fathin Ungku; Editing by Kim Coghill)