Vaccine shortage jeopardises ‘one million jabs a day’ target

Protective shot: A woman holding her child as she receives a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination programme in Surabaya, East Java province. — Reuters

DESPITE the government’s ambitious goal of administering one million vaccine shots a day this month and two million a day in August, many regions are currently grappling with vaccine scarcity.

In many vaccination centres, eligible recipients, including those who had already received their first shots, had to return home without getting their jabs.