Indonesia looked forward to the advent of the vaccine against the coronavirus to the middle of 2021. This statement was made by the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo on the occasion of the beginning of clinical trials of a drug developed jointly with Chinese colleagues.
"We are working on its own vaccine for three months" – quoted by Widodo newspaper the Jakarta Post. The President hopes that the drug will be ready "ASAP". The first injection has already received about 20 volunteers. In total, the trials will involve about 1.6 thousand volunteers, among them the Governor of the province of West Java Ridwan Kamil.
The most optimistic projections, clinical trials will last until January next year. It is planned that Indonesia will produce about 250 million doses of vaccine per year, reports TASS.
