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Govt relaxes pandemic curbs, promises to boost vaccination rollout
The country reported 9,629 COVID-19 cases on Monday – the first time in 10 weeks the daily caseload was below the 10,000 mark.
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A pedestrian walks in front of a restaurant in the downtown area of Jakarta. (Antara/Dhemas Reviyanto)
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he government has further relaxed COVID-19 curbs for more regencies and cities in Java and Bali but promises to accelerate its vaccination and booster shot rollout amid the country’s still relatively high death rate.
The country reported 9,629 COVID-19 cases on Monday – the first time in 10 weeks the daily caseload was below the 10,000 mark – but saw 14,408 new cases on Tuesday.
The moving seven-day average for daily cases has also dropped to around 20,000 cases, from just under 30,000 the week prior.
“[The national decline] has been in line with significant drop-offs in COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates in all of Java and Bali,” Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said during a press briefing on Monday.
This has resulted in the government lowering the public activity restrictions (PPKM) level for a number of regencies and cities to level 2 – the second-lowest in the country’s four-tiered system.
Some 55 regencies and cities in Java and Bali are now under level 2 curbs, up from 37 the week prior, which included metropolitan areas Greater Jakarta and Greater Surabaya, in East Java.
Last week also saw the government scrapping mandatory COVID-19 tests for domestic travel, but this has resulted in declining test numbers and a jump in the country’s positivity rate.
