JAKARTA - Indonesia will have capacity to produce 250 million doses a year of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020 pending trials on humans, a minister said on Tuesday , as the country seeks to halt a wave of infections that has shown no sign of slowing.
State-run pharmaceutical firm Bio Farma will begin phase three of clinical trials on humans this week using a vaccine produced by China's Sinovac. If those are successful, Bio Farma has said it would produce the vaccine itself. Erick Thohir, Indonesia's minister for state-owned enterprises, said Bio Farma would raise capacity in the coming months and by year-end, would be ready to produce 250 million doses a year.
The Indonesian trials will be conducted in West Java involving about 1,600 volunteers, according to the website of the West Java government.
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