Indonesia believes it can achieve 5 million vaccinations per day: Coordinating minister

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JAKARTA: Indonesia is hoping to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccination drive to administer up to 2.5 million jabs a day by September and eventually ...

due to bed shortage at hospitals. Some died at home as they could not access hospital care.

“Because of their culture, they feel very comfortable staying with the family. This is a problem because they could be creating a new cluster,” he said.The army and police would be deployed to bring COVID-19 patients to quarantine centres, he said. “But, we are lucky right now we are able to set up our strategy to control per island, per area, like Bali. Bali for instance has vaccinated over 85 per cent, soon going to be around 90 per cent.

Mr Pandjaitan said the government has started to prepare a roadmap to move towards living with COVID-19. People might have to still wear a mask and bring along their vaccination cards when they travel, he said.

 

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