Booster vaccine roll out a sure recipe for boosting inequality: Jakarta Post columnist


A healthcare worker prepares a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine during a mass vaccination program in Jakarta on Dec 10, 2021. - Reuters

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): In the run-up to the National Games (PON) in October, the government worked hard to make sure that as many people as possible in Papua and West Papua provinces, hosts of the biennale event, get their Covid-19 vaccines.

It never got anywhere near the published target of a 70 per cent vaccination rate. In the end, the vaccine roll out in the two easternmost provinces focused on three regencies and one city where the Games' venues were located.

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