Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19

More than 350 healthcare workers have become infected with COVID-19 in Indonesia and dozens hospitalized despite being vaccinated with China’s Sinovac shot, officials said.

Badai Ismoyo, head of the Kudus district health office in Central Java, said most of the healthcare workers were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, but still, dozens were in the hospital with high fevers and declining oxygen saturation levels.

The outbreak occurred as the region has battled an outbreak believed to be driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.

Healthcare workers, which were designated as a priority group, were among the first to become eligible in Indonesia to get COVID-19 shots when the vaccination campaign began in January.