Indonesia starts private COVID-19 vaccination scheme using Chinese vaccines


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Indonesia starts private COVID-19 vaccination scheme using Chinese vaccines 1 Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus Indonesia on Tuesday kicked off a private COVID-19 vaccination program using Chinese vaccines with a mutual cooperation scheme locally known as "gotong royong" in 19 private manufacturing companies in West Java province. President Joko Widodo said that through this scheme, companies or legal entities can pay for the COVID-19 vaccines for their employees to get injected for free to help achieve herd immunity. "We hope herd immunity can be awakened soon, thus the spread of COVID-19 can be stopped in this country," said Widodo while...