Indonesia to get US vaccine donations amid COVID emergency

US makes pledge to Indonesia as country hits new record cases and deaths with Jakarta predicting to reach 100,000 active cases in a few days.

Four million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine from the US are heading to Indonesia, the US national security adviser has informed the Indonesian foreign minister, as the country battles record coronavirus infections and deaths that forced an emergency lockdown starting on Saturday. In a call with Retno Marsudi on Friday, Jake Sullivan said the doses would be shipped via the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme “as soon as possible,” a White House statement said. Sullivan said the donation “underscored the United States’ support for the people of Indonesia as they fight a surge in COVID-19 cases”.