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Returning Hajj pilgrims to receive health monitoring card: official

Indonesian Hajj pilgrims will receive a health monitoring card to help them monitor their personal health up to 21 days ...

Health Ministry to monitor health of Hajj returnees

The Ministry of Health has implemented a health monitoring procedure for Hajj pilgrims returning to Indonesia to ...

Caution key for handling COVID case rate dynamics: ministry

Caution is key for Indonesia to deal with the changes in the COVID-19 case rate, Health Ministry spokesperson Mohammad ...

SINOVAC joins hands with HKU-CTC research team and Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong to kick off a clinical trial of an Omicron-specific inactivated vaccine for booster use in Hong Kong, China

A kick off ceremony was held at Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong (Gleneagles or GHK) for initiating a clinical trial to ...

House Speaker urges people to implement health protocols

Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI)  Puan Maharani has urged the people to always ...

FMD: Govt declares certain emergency status

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has declared a certain emergency status for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) ...

Health protocols must be prioritized to check FMD spread: academic

Health protocol implementation among livestock must be prioritized to curb the spread of the foot-and-mouth disease ...

Climate change causes spread of infectious diseases: BRIN

Climate change caused infectious diseases and human pathogens to spread due to increasing concentrations of carbon ...

IDI prescribes scaling up booster vaccinations amid COVID surge threat

The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has asked the government and the community to step up booster vaccinations as ...

Indonesia's Omicron subvariant tally touches 20: ministry

The number of cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron in Indonesia reached 20 as of Tuesday, Spokesperson for ...

People must understand risks in health protocol relaxation: govt

Government spokesperson for COVID-19, Reisa Broto Asmoro, has said that she expects Indonesians to understand the risks ...

Gov't to prioritize eight provinces for TB eradication

The government will focus on eight provinces for accelerating the reduction of tuberculosis (TB) incidence and deaths ...

Half of 35 suspected cases not acute hepatitis: ministry

A clinical examination has confirmed only half of the 35 suspected cases of mysterious acute hepatitis reported in ...

Independence crucial in fight against Adenovirus: Legislator

Indonesia needs to develop facility and infrastructure independence against the threat of Adenovirus that is strongly ...

E Java Governor asks prospective Hajj pilgrims to complete vaccination

East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa has urged prospective Hajj pilgrims from the province to get fully ...