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Vaccinating Asia: Midwives and soldiers in Indonesia mobilised to support country's inoculation drive
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Indonesian midwife Resti Damanik is among 114,000 vaccinators mobilised to assist the country’s mass vaccination drive.
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JAKARTA - For nearly three months now, Indonesian midwife Resti Damanik has had a second job: Giving people Covid-19 jabs.
Stationed at one of the community health clinics in capital city Jakarta, the 52-year-old carefully fills syringes with the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine and calmly injects health workers and the elderly - the priority recipients in the country.
