Indonesia's vaccine rollout comes up against cold reality of limited logistics


A woman receives a shot of a Covid-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination for health workers in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. - AP

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): In Indonesia, it can cost twice as much to transport a refrigerated container of oranges from Jakarta to Jayapura, in Papua, a distance of more than 4,300km, than it does to import it from Shanghai, which is similar in distance.

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