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Jakarta to prepare extra hospital beds to anticipate Omicron surge

The Jakarta Health Office has said that it will prepare extra hospital beds to boost capacity to 11,500 beds to ...

Jakarta's COVID-19 recovery percentage reaches 92.8 percent

The Jakarta Health Office reported that the COVID-19 patient recovery percentage within the capital city had reached ...

Cervical cancer deaths can be prevented with HPV vaccine: minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that deaths caused by cervical cancer can be prevented with the help of ...

Health Ministry continue to push immunization against cervical cancer

The government is committed to expanding the socialization of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) immunization as a concrete ...

Ministry seeks improvement in early cancer detection services

Director-general of disease prevention and control at the Ministry of Health Maxi Rein Rondonuwu has asked all ...

Young workers constitute majority of COVID-19 cases: health office

Young workers in the age bracket of 21-30 years constituted the largest chunk of COVID-19 cases in December ...

Be more vigilant as hospital's BOR surges: Patria

Deputy Governor of Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria appealed to all parties to be more vigilant as the bed occupancy ratio ...

Epidemiologist asks gov't to re-evaluate PPKM policy

An epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono asked the government to evaluate the ...

COVID-19: Jakarta administers boosters to 216,726 residents

The realization of the third or booster shots in Jakarta has reached 216,726 people out of the targeted 8 million in ...

Health reform has become a priority: ministry

The COVID-19 pandemic has made health sector reform a top priority for dealing with the threat of future outbreaks, ...

Government to build 67 health centers in 2022, mostly in Papua

The Indonesian Health Ministry is planning to build 67 Public Health Centers (Puskesmas) in 2022 to plug the shortage ...

Travelers from Saudi Arabia constitute bulk of Indonesia's 882 cases

The Indonesian Health Ministry reported that confirmed cases of Omicron in Indonesia had totalled 882 as of Thursday ...

Jakarta kicks off COVID-19 booster drive

A COVID-19 booster vaccination drive was launched at the Kramat Jati Community Health Center (Puskesmas) in East ...

Jakarta imposes micro lockdown amid Omicron spread

The Jakarta provincial government has imposed micro-scale lockdown in several areas following an increase in the number ...

Cl government's decision awaited for booster dose administration

In the wake of rising number of Omicron cases, the Jakarta Health Office confirmed that the central government's ...