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31.7% of provinces now have TB-handling units: ministry

The Home Affairs Ministry has informed that 31.7 percent of the 38 provinces in Indonesia as well as 34.1 percent of ...

Aggressive contact tracing key to fight TB: Health official

The Ministry of Health highlighted the need to step up contact investigation as part of the efforts to realize the ...

Indonesia's airport on high alert to prevent COVID-19 entry

The Port Health Office (KKP) at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, stated on Saturday that it ...

Jakarta administers second dose of monkeypox vaccine

The Jakarta Health Service has begun administering the second dose of the monkeypox (mpox) vaccine to 495 first-dose ...

Ministry calls for active public participation in TB prevention

The Health Ministry has urged citizens to become actively involved in campaigns for tuberculosis (TB) prevention to ...

Positive mpox cases reach 29: Official

The DKI Jakarta Health Service reported that as of November 7, some 29 active positive cases of monkeypox (mpox) were ...

Mpox: Jakarta continues close contact tracing to fight transmission

The Jakarta Health Office continues to conduct case detection efforts against mpox by tracing close contacts for 24 ...

Govt limiting monkeypox vaccination for close contacts: ministry

The Indonesian Health Ministry has informed that the monkeypox vaccination will currently only be administered to ...

Ministry reminds stakeholders to beware of Nipah virus transmission

The Indonesian Health Ministry reminded local governments, port health offices (KKP), health service facilities, and ...

Long-term COVID mitigation in endemic era

On June 21, 2023, Indonesia finally entered the COVID-19 endemic phase after three years of battling the ...

Number of Kraken cases reaches 3

The number of patients detected with the Omicron XBB 1.5 sub-variant or Kraken has reached three so far, including a ...

PeduliLindungi kept 626,000 patients from transmitting coronavirus

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that the COVID-19 mobile contact tracing application PeduliLindungi has ...

Not necessary to wear masks in open spaces: Health Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that people do not need to use masks in open spaces if they are in good ...

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Indonesia advancing towards COVID-19 endemic stage

- the only agency authorized to declare a pandemic -- is yet to confirm that the world has entered the COVID-19 endemic ...

Jakartans asked to wear masks while celebrating New Year

Acting governor of Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono has advised the capital city’s residents to continue wearing ...