JAKARTA: Mothers carrying babies and dragging toddlers by the hand flocked to clinics yesterday as Indonesia launched a massive polio vaccination drive to halt an outbreak of the disease that has crippled 16 children.
Officials want to immunise 6.4 million children across the provinces of West Java and Banten, as well as Jakarta, during the free but compulsory campaign for children under five.
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