Staff are seen in the COVID-19 vaccine production facility area at the Bio Farma office amid the coronavirus pandemic in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia August 4, 2020. Antara Foto/Dhemas Reviyanto via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT.
BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Human trials on a potential coronavirus vaccine are due to start in Indonesia next week as part of a collaboration between state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma and China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a senior researcher said.
The launch of the vaccine trial comes as Indonesia has struggled to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, with a consistently escalating number of cases.
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