Indonesia: Doctors advise not to rush for Covid-19 vaccine as death toll hits above 13,000 and total now almost 396,000

A volunteer is injected with an experimental Chinese COVID-19 vaccine as Turkey began final phase three trials at Kocaeli University Research Hospital in Kocaeli, Turkey on Sept. 25. - Reuters

JAKARTA, Oct 24 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia’s doctors have warned the government not to rush its Covid-19 vaccination programmes and patiently wait instead for the results of ongoing trials to be published, as the state pushes for the emergency use authorisation of vaccine candidates currently being developed in China.

Several professional medical associations have spoken out in alarm at the way the government is betting on the success of unfinished vaccines to solve the problems associated with the coronavirus outbreak in the country, despite scant evidence of the vaccines’ effectiveness and safety for human use.