Joko: 40 million jabs by June


Dining ‘companions’: A woman eating next to cutouts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US president Donald Trump used as social distancing aids at an eatery in Jakarta. — Reuters

THE government plans to inject one million people per day with the Covid-19 vaccine and 40 million people by June as part of a mass vaccination drive targeting 181.5 million people, President Joko Widodo said.

Indonesia’s Covid-19 caseload is among the worst in Asia, with more than 1.36 million infections and 36,800 deaths, although new cases have dropped significantly in the past month.

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