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.