The CoronaVac vaccine developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has effectively reduced the risk of COVID-19 symptoms in medical workers by 94 percent, showed a study by the Indonesian Health Ministry.
The health ministry's spokesperson for COVID-19 vaccination Siti Nadia Tarmizi said that medical workers belong to the highest risk group for COVID-19 infection as they are working at the forefront in combating the pandemic.
Tarmizi also emphasized the importance of more people receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to achieving herd immunity and ending the pandemic as early as possible in the Southeast Asian country.
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