A young woman receives a shot of the Sinovac vaccine during a mass Covid-19 vaccination held by the Indonesia military in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, June 28, 2021. The world's fourth most populous country has seen Covid-19 infections surge in recent weeks, putting pressure on hospitals and has added urgency to the government's plan to inoculate 1 million people each day by next month. - AP
JAKARTA, June 28 (Bloomberg): Indonesia will start offering Covid-19 vaccination to those aged 12 to 17 years old, after last week extending inoculation to all adults in order to curb a worsening virus resurgence.
"The food and drug regulator has issued an emergency use of authorization for Sinovac vaccine to be applied on teens, ” President Joko Widodo said in a press briefing on Monday.
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