FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers do a simulation for coronavirus vaccine clinical trials next week at the Faculty of Medicine at Padjadjaran University amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia, August 6, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo's push for mass vaccinations to be rolled out in December faces a delay after the country's food and drugs agency warned it will not be able to give emergency authoritisation until late January due to incomplete data.
In an interview last week, the president told Reuters that Indonesia aimed to start mass vaccination for medical staff and other frontline workers next month in a bid to suppress a surging COVID-19 caseload and support a battered economy.
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