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Polish traveller detected with XBB 1.5 in Indonesia: Ministry

The Health Ministry reported that a case of the COVID-19 Kraken subvariant, or XBB 1.5, was detected in Indonesia, as ...

No plans to make second COVID booster travel requirement: Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has informed that the government so far has no plans to make the fourth dose or ...

Specific calculations needed in relaxing, tightening policies: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that relaxing and tightening policies in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

Indonesia's economic growth projected at 5.3 percent in 2022: Minister

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto projected Indonesia's economic growth in 2022 to ...

Ministry traces close contacts of COVID-19 Kraken variant patient

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that his ministry is currently tracing the close contacts of the patient of ...

Govt-private collaboration helped tackle COVID oxygen crisis: Minister

Collaboration between the government and private start-up companies helped meet the need for oxygen during the COVID-19 ...

Pindad to launch tactical vehicle's electric variant next year

State-owned defense equipment company Pindad, which is a part of the national defense holding DEFEND ID, is planning to ...

Genome sequencing, serosurveys key for pandemic control: Minister

The key to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic lies in identifying new virus types through genome sequencing and ...

COVID could hinder efforts to improve human resources: Expert

An epidemiologist from Griffith University, Australia, Dicky Budiman, has said that the adverse effects of ...

Pandemic has boosted nation's genome sequencing capability: minister

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted Indonesia's genome sequencing capability and made the ...

Indonesians urged to remain disciplined about masking up: ministry

Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture has said that people at large still need to ...

New COVID-19 cases caused by new variants, not travel: Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin clarified that people's travel or dynamics did not really affect the spike in ...

68.57 million Indonesians receive third COVID-19 vaccine dose

The number of Indonesians who have received the third dose or the first booster of the COVID-19 vaccine reached 68.57 ...

COVID-19 vaccination must continue despite PPKM revocation: minister

COVID-19 vaccinations must continue despite the revocation of the community activity restrictions (PPKM) policy on ...

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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 ...