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A healthcare worker in North Macedonia handles China s Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at a sport centre, as the country continues its mass inoculation campaign, in Stip, North Macedonia, May 6, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
The World Health Organization has granted emergency use approval for the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, paving the way for a more pronounced role by Beijing in vaccinating the world against COVID-19.
The approval makes China the only non-Western country to have received WHO backing for its vaccines, which affirms their quality, safety, efficacy and accessibility.
As WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared, the approval expands the list of COVID-19 vaccines that COVAX, the mechanism created to pool the global vaccine effort and ensure fairer distribution, can buy.
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Indonesia s elderly hesitant about getting vaccinated
A woman getting her Covid-19 vaccine during a mass inoculation drive for teachers in Tangerang, Indonesia, late last month.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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JAKARTA - Indonesia is doing relatively well in vaccinating the general population, although many of its elderly remain hesitant about getting the jab.
Only 2.7 million of the country s elderly population had been vaccinated by early May, just one-eighth of the 21.5 million set as the target earlier.
This is despite the fact that a number of privileges has been extended to seniors to encourage them to be vaccinated, including allowing them to turn up at any designated facility across the sprawling archipelago for a jab without prior registration.
Community mosques and schools have also been activated as part of the government s efforts to make it convenient for everyone to get the jab.
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