JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president ordered authorities to speed up the country's vaccination campaign as the World Health Organization warned on Thursday of the need to increase social restrictions in the country amid a fresh surge of COVID-19 infections caused by worrisome variants.
Soldiers in protective suits spray disinfectant on people entering the Gelora Bandung Lautan Api Stadium to receive the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination in Bandung, West Java, on Jun 17, 2021. Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country, aims to inoculate more than 181 million of its 270 million people by March 2022, but authorities have only fully vaccinated 11.8 million people and partially vaccinated another 9.6 million others.National COVID-19 task force spokesman Wiku Adisasmito said the slow progress can be put down to the limited global vaccine supply, the unpreparedness of the national health system and vaccine hesitancy. The government has received 92.