(Photo: AP)
Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Peking, Bangkok
The needle of the injection syringe stuck in the upper arm of Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo for nine seconds. For this moment, which initiated the start of the coronavirus vaccination campaign in the Southeast Asian island nation on Wednesday, Indonesian television stations even interrupted their current programs.
“It doesn’t hurt at all,” said the President with a smile. An employee demonstratively held up the packaging with the logo of the Chinese vaccine manufacturer Sinovac, which is one of Indonesia’s main suppliers. 
The main message behind Widodo was on a banner in capital letters: “Safe and halal”, is the promise.
A similar picture emerged in Turkey on the same day.
The Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca was the first citizen of the country to be vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine developed in China. Broadcast live on Turkish television. This was preceded by a 14-day security test by the Turkish authorities. “I always said there was a light at the end of the tunnel,” Koca explained after the vaccination.
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