Asia’s Covid-19 vaccine hopes hinge on good governance and countering anti-vaxxers

When Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced last month that Indonesians would get Covid-19 vaccines for free, he called on his cabinet ministers to “prioritise and reallocate other budgets … so there is no reason for the public not to get vaccines”.Like Southeast Asia’s largest economy – which also has the highest number of cases among Asean countries – governments worldwide are digging deep into the national purse to secure one or several of the seven vaccines currently available for…

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