Indonesia's elderly, vulnerable left behind as Covid-19 vaccination programme speeds up


A medical worker inoculates an elderly woman with the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at a school in Jakarta. - ST

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): In March this year, 60-year-old Siti Umayah received an invitation to have a Covid-19 vaccination shot from her village in Grobogan, Central Java.

But she was rejected after a nurse on duty found she had tested positive for Covid-19 last December.

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