Indonesia Plans to Vaccinate one Million people per  Day  against COVID-19 within  July

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo announced today, Thursday, that his country may start vaccinating one million people per day against the Coronavirus ( known also as COVID-19)  within July.

Statements of the Indonesian president came over his visit to inspect the headquarters of the campaign of mass vaccination of teachers and elders and crews of health at the Hospital of Jakarta University.

He stressed that if the work goes at that pace, the health authorities are able to vaccinate 700 thousand people every day in June and one million next month.

Some 10 thousand persons take part in the campaign of mass vaccination in Indonesia and the operation goes calm.

It is worth noting that more than eleven million people were vaccinated in Indonesia so far in addition to at least 18   million who have received one dose of the anti-Corona vaccine.

On the other hand, the Indonesian authorities threatened in February to fine those who refuse to receive vaccines against COVID-19.

Ahmed Reza Batria, Deputy-governor of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, said that the local authorities follow the rules only.

He added that the financial penalties were the last resort to enforce people to be vaccinated in the city that houses about a quarter of the infections with COVID-19 in the country.

Batria went on to say that those who refuse the vaccine will face cut off the social aids and fine.

However, Setty  Nadia Termeezy, an official at the Ministry of Health in Indonesia, affirmed that penalties are necessary to encourage people to receive vaccines.

But no one really knows the true state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, and that means it is unpredictable. But there are good reasons to worry about what will happen next.

Fifteen months after Indonesia reported its first case of COVID-19, testing for the coronavirus remains among the lowest in Asia.

Perhaps because it is not free, testing has reached only around 40 per 1,000 people, compared with 115 in the Philippines, 373 in Malaysia, and more than 2,000 in Singapore.