Vaccine Opportunists

Non-health care professionals—including desk workers, socialites, bureaucrats, government officials, and family members of regional heads—were vaccinated in the first-stage vaccination program. Messy data is believed to be one of the causes of leaks in the vaccination program.

Devy Ernis

February 22, 2021

ON Thursday, February 11, Mansyur—not his real name—visited a community health center (puskesmas) in East Jakarta, carrying an expired pharmacist’s registration letter. The 29-year-old man hoped to be given a free Covid-19 vaccination. “I was worried that I would be infected and would be bringing the virus home,” Mansyur told Tempo on Friday, February 19.

Two health centers had already refused to give him the inject

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