Indonesia Gets 1.2 Million Doses of COVID Vaccine from China


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Indonesia has received 1.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine made by the Chinese company Sinovac, President Joko Widodo said on Sunday. The shipment was the first of a total of 3 million doses the country is procuring from China, Widodo said. It landed in the country of 267 million people on Sunday night and was escorted to a storage facility by a security motorcade in Bandung, the capital of West Java. The vaccine was developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech, and is expected to help Indonesia counter a spiking number of cases. The country has reported over half…