Australia to donate oxygen equipment, AstraZeneca vaccine to Indonesia

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Australia will donate oxygen-related equipment, including cylinders and concentrators, antigen test kits and 2.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Indonesia, Reuters quoted the Australian foreign minister as saying.

Indonesia is currently battling a surge in Covid-19 infections, fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India.

In this file photo, passengers sit at a train station as they wait to return to their hometowns ahead of Eidul Fitr amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia. — Reuters/File
In this file photo, passengers sit at a train station as they wait to return to their hometowns ahead of Eidul Fitr amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia. — Reuters/File

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