27 Jan
Indonesia has registered more than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the first coronavirus infection was confirmed in the country in March last year, amid the current vaccination drive.
On Tuesday, the COVID-19 cases in the world's fourth most populous country rose by 13,094 in the past 24 hours to 1,012,350, the country's Health Ministry reported.To date, more than 28,000 people have died and around 820,000 have recovered from the coronavirus epidemic, showed the official data.
Indonesia posts the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Southeast Asia region. The virus has spread to all the country's 34 provinces with Jakarta being the hardest hit, and East Java the highest death toll.
Across the country, a massive COVID-19 vaccination program was launched on Jan. 14 with healthcare workers being the first group to received the vaccine.
The mass vaccination began one day after President Joko Widodo took the first shot of a vaccine developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech, in a move to convince the public of the vaccine's safety.
xinhua
