Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment get ready to treat patients at the emergency hospital for Covid-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 17, 2021. - Reuters
JAKARTA (Reuters):More than 350 Indonesian doctors and healthcare workers have contracted Covid-19 despite being vaccinated and dozens have been hospitalised, officials said, as concerns rise about the efficacy of some vaccines against more virulent virus variants.
Most were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, said Badai Ismoyo, head of the Kudus district health office in Central Java, but dozens were in hospital with high fevers and declining oxygen saturation levels.
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