Indonesia to get raw materials to produce 15 million doses of vaccine from Chinese firm Sinovac


Workers load containers carrying the second batch of Covid-19 vaccines made by Sinovac, upon its arrival from Beijing at the Jakarta International Airport in Tangerang on Dec 31, 2020. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia is set to receive raw materials to produce 15 million doses of vaccine from Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech soon, which will add to the three million doses already dispatched to the country.

A Garuda Indonesia aircraft arrived at Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, at around noon on Thursday (Dec 31) with 1.8 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. This second batch follows the first one of 1.2 million doses on Dec 6.

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