A coffin is removed from an ambulance at the Pondok Raggon Public Cemetery in East Jakarta on Sunday, December 27, 2020. Indonesia is finalizing deals to secure 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the new health minister said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the deal with AstraZeneca would be finalized before the end of the year, while an agreement with Pfizer would be signed in the first week of January. Speaking at his first official news conference, the minister said 1.3 million front-line health workers, 500 of whom have died of the coronavirus would get priority in vaccinations. It has had nearly 720,000 confirmed infections and 21,500 deaths, among the highest tallies in Asia.

Source: The Standard December 29, 2020 08:14 UTC