That's good to hear about your son, @Discombobulated. I hope you are doing well, @AzulOscuro.

Yes, they bought more Sinovac. It's becoming a joke. I think the government feels like it has to keep backing this garbage because they are trying to bring that Sinovac lab here to produce vaccines to sell to the rest of the continent. If no one wants the vaccine, the lab is a losing proposition. For all we know, the president and his family want to invest in the lab. Maybe he has promised the Health Minister that he will be the director. There's got to be something like that going on.

I just read that even Costa Rica refused donations of Sinovac, preferring Pfizer even if it takes longer to get everyone vaccinated.

Oh, and now we have this:
Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19, dozens in hospital | Reuters

Indonesia was supposed to be a success story for Sinovac due to some study on health workers. The study wasn't so convincing to me since they only followed the vaccine recipients for 28 days after full vaccination and the average age was 31, so they were relatively low risk in the first place.


The last I read, they haven't found the Delta variant here. However, I don't know how much sequencing they are doing. Supposedly the border closure has helped us with that. The main variants are P1 from Brazil and some sort of Andean variant that is making the rounds of the region. I'm not sure what they are called under the new system.