Indonesian Indigenous Vaccine Raises Concerns

Untested Covid-19 jab promoted by fired health minister

On December 14, Indonesia’s defense minister Prabowo Subianto publicly sat for a Covid-19 shot with a domestically produced Nusantara vaccine that government officials hope to make the mainstay booster in the fight against the pandemic, which has taken 144,000 lives and sickened 4.27 million people. But critics say it hasn’t been adequately tested and i…