A healthcare worker in protective gear collects a swab sample to be tested for Covid-19 from a civil servant at a traditional textile market in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2, 2020. - Reuters
JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia is working to produce its own Covid-19 vaccine next year amid growing anxiety that developing countries could have difficulty getting access to a future jab, the head of Indonesia's national Covid-19 research team said on Thursday (July 2).
"The production capability and capacity of biotech companies in the world is, we know, limited, and global supply chains also have challenges," Professor Ali Ghufron Mukti, head of the innovation team at Indonesia's research and technology ministry, told a streamed press conference alongside the country's foreign minister.
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