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Al Jazeera Staff

Can Sinovac protect Indonesia from the Omicron wave?

COVID-19 cases are surging again in Indonesia where less than 50 percent of people are fully vaccinated and mostly with the Sinovac vaccine [Bagus Indahono/EPA]

As a third wave of the pandemic begins to take hold across Indonesia, there are questions over its use of China’s Sinovac, after a series of studies suggesting the most commonly used COVID-19 vaccine in the Southeast Asian nation is no match for the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

On Friday, the country recorded 32,211 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest official number since the Delta wave began to fade in mid-August.

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