Even though she’s only visiting from Indonesia, Suli Asifatami Razak has already received her second jab of Pfizer in the United States.
Key points:
- Only about 5 per cent of Indonesians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- The US government says people with valid visitor visas can travel to the US to seek medical treatment
- Wealthy people from Thailand and Taiwan have also flown overseas to skip vaccine queues at home and get a jab
“I have children who studied here. We already made a plan to visit them, and the US happened to offer free vaccines,” she said.
“So I thought, ‘Why don’t we do both?’.”
Ms Razak is just one of many Indonesians and others across Asia getting vaccinated while on vacation — what one tour company has dubbed “Air V&V”.
Ms Razak said she rejected the idea that getting jabs overseas is a privilege of wealthy people.
“There’s nothing wrong with getting…
