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- Indonesia has approved AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, said the country’s food and drug agency (BPOM) on Tuesday (Mar 9), after receiving more than 1 million doses of the vaccine a day before.
- The vaccine will be given to people 18 years old and above, BPOM chief Penny K Lukito said in a news conference.
- About 1.1 million doses of the vaccine arrived late on Monday via the COVAX global vaccine-alliance scheme.
- Indonesia will get about 11.7 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine through COVAX, which will come in batches till May, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Monday.
- “Besides efforts to secure domestic supplies, Indonesia’s support for the principle of equal access to vaccines for all needs to continue,” she said in an online news briefing from the Jakarta airport, after the plane that carried the vaccine landed.
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