Safety first: Muslims queuing up to enter a disinfection chamber set up as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak in Medan, North Sumatra. — AP
THE country will have the capacity to produce 250 million doses a year of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020 pending trials on humans, a minister said, as Indonesia seeks to halt a wave of infections that has shown no sign of relent.
Indonesia has confirmed 116,781 cases of Covid-19 and 5,452 deaths since its first infections in March.
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