Jakarta (Agencies) – Indonesia is expecting to receive 45 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in August, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a virtual news conference on Monday.
They will include vaccines from Sinovac, Moderna and Pfizer, he said, quoted by Reuters.
Budi also said that hospital bed occupancies have gone down in its capital city of Jakarta, but are rising outside of Java island.
On Sunday, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said that small businesses and some shopping malls could reopen despite warnings that loosening curbs could spark another devastating Covid-19 wave, even as it moved to extend a web of restrictions launched this month.
President Jokowi said measures imposed in early July would continue until August 2 as the highly infectious Delta variant tears across the Southeast Asian archipelago, which has been overtaking battered India and Brazil as the world's virus epicentre.
But he added that "adjustments" would be made to a shutdown that closed malls, restaurants, parks and offices including in the capital Jakarta, hard-hit Java and Bali.
Traditional markets, roadside vendors and ubiquitous open-air restaurants known as warungs would be among businesses allowed to reopen Monday with restrictions, even in the worst-affected areas.
Shopping malls and mosques in less hard-hit parts of the Muslim majority country would also get the green light to swing open their doors to limited crowds and hours.
Offices would remain subject to shutdown orders, the government said.
However, there have been widespread reports of employers forcing non-essential employees to work even under the current lockdown.
Jokowi, pointing to falling daily infection and hospital occupancy rates, said any loosening would be done "gradually and carefully".