#variants

Collection of variants news, found 538 news.

WHO Director-General praises Widodo over pandemic handling

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus  has congratulated ...

COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities that need to be fixed: Ombudsman

COVID-19 has not broken down anything, but revealed the vulnerabilities within the country's systems that need to ...

G20 Indonesia

Strengthening global health architecture through G20 forum

Indonesia has chosen global health architecture as one of its key priority issues during this year’s G20 ...

G20 Indonesia

GISAID+ to improve the country's response to pandemic: Ministry

The Indonesian Health Ministry's Secretary-General Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha emphasized the importance of ...

News Focus

Indonesia braces for infection spike as Omicron subvariants emerge

Two Omicron subvariants, which surfaced in early June this year, have threatened the sense of normalcy that had ...

KAI Commuter conducts trial at new Matraman Station

State railway firm's subsidiary PT KAI Commuter conducted the first day of operational trials in Matraman Station, ...

Ministry seeks stricter implementation of health protocols in schools

The Ministry of Health has pushed for strengthening the implementation of health protocols during face-to-face or ...

Booster dose recipients reach 48.2 million

At least 48.2 million Indonesians have received the third or booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Thursday, ...

Indonesia intensifies genome sequencing to trace BA.4, BA.5 cases

The Health Ministry has intensified whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to check the presence of BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron ...

Virus variants, health protocol easing increase COVID-19 cases

The current COVID-19 case spike was triggered by changes in virus variants and easing of compliance with health ...

BA.4, BA.5 cases to peak at 25 thousand daily: Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin estimated that COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 cases will peak to reach ...

Examining chances of reaching COVID endemicity by Independence Day

After battling the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years, the Indonesian government is still prioritizing ...

Existing vaccines still effective against new variants: task force

Health experts have agreed that existing COVID-19 vaccines are still effective in bolstering the body’s ...

VP optimistic of halal tourism recovering as COVID-19 cases decline

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin is sanguine about the halal tourism sector in Indonesia recovering and reinvigorating ...

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 ...