Indonesia may allow private companies to immunize their employees

Indonesia // 22 January, 2021

The Australian newspaper (behind paywall) reports that: “Indonesia is considering allowing private firms and the rich to pay to jump the national COVID-19 vaccination queue…

“Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, a former banker, admitted at the weekend the government was discussing ‘mechanisms’ for allowing companies to procure their own vaccines and conduct independent vaccination programs.

“’As long as this vaccination program can be done as quickly as possible, as wide as possible, as cheap as possible, in principle I’m OK (with it),’ Mr Sadikin said.

“’But what we must avoid is the public perception that the rich can get vaccinated first. The vaccine should not fall in the hands of the disaster mafias. We must be very careful about this. We are thinking about the plan now, and how to go about it.’”

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