A medical staff member checks on Covid-19 coronavirus patients at a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) ward in Bogor on June 18, 2021, as Indonesia’s Covid-19 coronavirus infection rate soars. - AFP
JAKARTA, JUne 18 (AP): Indonesia’s president ordered authorities to speed up the country's vaccination campaign as the World Health Organisation warned Thursday of the need to increase social restrictions in the country amid a fresh surge of coronavirus infections caused by worrisome variants.
"We need vaccination acceleration in order to achieve communal immunity, which we hope can stop the Covid-19 spread, ” President Joko Widodo said in a remarks while visiting a vaccination centre just outside the capital, Jakarta.
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