Mass vaccinations begin

First in line: Jokowi getting his shot in the arm at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. — Reuters

PRESIDENT Joko Widodo received the first shot of a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine after Indonesia approved it for emergency use and began efforts to vaccine millions of people in the world’s fourth most populated country.

After Joko, top military, police and medical officials were vaccinated, as well as the secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council, the clerical body that last week ruled the vaccine was halal and could be taken by Muslims.