People line up to receive the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a makeshift mass vaccination clinic in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on July 5, 2021, as the Southeast Asian nation battles an unprecedented wave of new infections. - AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma is delaying a plan to sell Covid-19 vaccines after public backlash against the move.
The company will focus on preparing the programme first, said Ganti Winarno Putro, a spokesman for the company. Kimia Farma was earlier set to market Sinopharm Group Co shots, which were ordered for a private vaccination programme, as early as yesterday. The plan was met with questions on why the vaccines were being sold and why any company was allowed to profit from it.
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