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Govt bolsters strategies as Omicron wave sweeps Indonesia

Indonesia is currently witnessing the third wave of COVID-19 infections triggered by the Omicron variant, which, though ...

COVID-19 cases projected to increase in next few days: official

Health Ministry's Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Director, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, estimated that the number ...

Omicron positivity rate higher than Delta though BOR lower

The number of positive Omicron cases exceeded the Delta variant, though the bed occupancy rate (BOR) was lower than the ...

Omicron peak could be higher than Delta: ministry

The number of cases caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 could be higher than the peak recorded during the Delta ...

Agriculture Ministry to involve entrepreneurs in mitigating zoonosis

The Agriculture Ministry is ready to involve agricultural entrepreneurs in the control and mitigation of zoonosis, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ministry breaks down chronology of first local Omicron transmission

Director of infectious disease prevention and control at the Health Ministry Siti Nadia Tarmizi explained the ...

Patient infected with Omicron relocated to RSPI Sulianto Saroso: gov't

A joint task force relocated a COVID-19 positive patient infected with the Omicron variant at Green Bay Condominium ...

First patient of local Omicron transmission is asymptomatic: Ministry

Indonesia's first patient of the local transmission of the Omicron variant did not exhibit any symptoms of illness, ...

Self-quarantine only for echelon 1 officials, upper ranks

The government is only allowing echelon 1 and upper ranks of public officials returning from abroad to self-quarantine, ...

Retrace AV launches new paint product that destroys SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus within 30 minutes

Billions of people around the world are attempting to return to workplaces, schools and social spaces. Governments ...

Fight against antimicrobial resistance

There is an important takeaway from the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week commemoration in Nusa Dua, Bali province, on ...

Kemayoran emergency hospital treats 196 COVID-19 patients

The number of inpatients treated at the Kemayoran Athletes Village Emergency Hospital for COVID-19 patients has ...

Mukomuko receives 21,060 COVID-19 vaccine doses of Pfizer

The Mukomuko District Health Office, Bengkulu Province, received an additional 21,060 COVID-19 vaccine doses of Pfizer ...