Two Roads to Corona Vaccine
Indonesia is taking two ways to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Bio Farma and Kalbe Farma are collaborating with vaccine makers from China and South Korea. The Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology is leading an independent vaccine development.
Edition : Monday, July 6, 2020
Researchers working on the coronavirus vaccine in a laboratory in Surabaya, East Java, last February./ ANTARA/Moch Asim
KUSNANDI Rusmil, 70, is busy with a new activity. The professor of pediatrics at Padjadjaran University’s Faculty of Medicine and pediatricians at Bandung Hasan Sadikin Hospital in West Java heads a team of clinical trials for the CoronaVac vaccine by Sinovac Biotech Ltd from China, which collaborates with Bio Farma. Kusnandi has been involved in 30 clinical vaccine trials, but for the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) vaccine, the tests
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