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Health Ministry to continue health sector transformation

The Health Ministry will continue to transform the six pillars of the health sector, the ministry's acting director ...

Govt formulates non-COVID-19 essential diseases handling road map

The government is preparing a road map to handle essential diseases apart from COVID-19, Acting Director General of ...

Dengue fever cases down as of October 2021: ministry

Dengue fever data from the Health Ministry has shown a drop in dengue cases to 37,646 as of October or the 43th week of ...

Jakarta awaits ministry policy on vaccinating children aged 6-11

The Jakarta Health Office said it is awaiting the Health Ministry’s decision on vaccinating children aged 6-11 ...

Healthy diet, physical activity can help prevent obesity: expert

Obesity can be prevented by controlling sugar, salt, and fat intake and through physical activity, acting Director for ...

Jakarta pegs vaccination target for children aged 6-11 at 900,000

The Jakarta Health Office has estimated it will need to vaccinate around 900 thousand children aged 6-11 following the ...

Bandung expedites COVID-19 testing to anticipate third wave

 Bandung, the capital of West Java province, is accelerating testing for the public as a precautionary measure ...

Ministry asks ITAGI to find best COVID-19 booster

The Ministry of Health has asked the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ITAGI) to research the best ...

Jakarta: No COVID-19 cases detected in 610 reopened schools

The Jakarta Education Office has confirmed that no positive COVID-19 cases have been detected in the 610 schools that ...

Govt adopts 4 strategies to meet 2.5-million vaccinations target

The Health Ministry has adopted four strategies to quickly achieve the daily vaccination target of 2.5 million doses in ...

Ministry aims to vaccinate over 20% of population in provinces

The Health Ministry is aiming to inoculate more than 20 percent of the total residents in each province against ...

COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Belitung reaches 50.85 percent

The Belitung District Health Office, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, confirmed that COVID-19 vaccination, as of ...

COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Depok reaches 58 percent

The number of recipients of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination in Depok City, West Java, reached 943,001 ...

Health facilities, testing helped lower COVID deaths in Jakarta

based swab testing has also been intensified, she informed. In the past week, the number of PCR-based swab tests ...

COVID-19 under control, positivity rate at 4.3%

The decline in the COVID-19 positivity rate to 4.3 percent in the capital over the past week signifies infections are ...