Jakarta ¨C For months, by Zoom calls and then by jet, Indonesian ministers and officials scoured the world for access to a vaccine for the coronavirus that Southeast Asia¡¯s biggest country is struggling to control. This month, their campaign paid off.
Three Chinese companies committed 250 million doses of vaccines to the archipelago of 270 million people. A letter of intent was signed with a U.K.-based company for another 100 million.
Absent from these pledges: the United States.
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