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View all search resultsRI COVID-19 death rate now higher than India’s second wave
But now, 12 days since the stricter restrictions were imposed in many parts of Indonesia, efforts to curb infections are still falling woefully short of the targets the government has set. All the while, cases and deaths continue to soar.
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ith the unprecedented numbers of daily new cases and deaths reported in the past week, and a collapsing healthcare system, Indonesia has been looking to India -- which managed to reduce its virus spread within two months -- in the hope that the current nightmare can be brought to an end.
But now, 12 days since the stricter restrictions were imposed in many parts of Indonesia, efforts to curb infections are still falling woefully short of the targets the government has set. All the while, cases and deaths continue to soar.
Indonesia’s daily deaths per million people have dramatically increased since mid-June, from 0.67 on a seven-day rolling average to 3.32 on Wednesday. This is higher than India’s 3.04 when it was at the peak of its second wave in May, according to Our World In Data.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said while announcing the emergency public activity restrictions (PPKM Darurat) earlier this month that he and his ministers had close contacts with their Indian counterparts to learn from their experiences.
Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartanto, who chairs the COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPCPEN), even claimed that Indonesia’s response was nearly identical to what India was doing two months ago.
“We have seen the cycle [of Delta variant] in India, how long would this variant go down and the solution we’re implementing is almost the same as what is being done in India,” Airlangga told a press briefing on Friday.
Indonesia is implementing the PPKM Darurat across Java and Bali from July 3 to 20 in a bid to curb the exponential spread of the Delta variant, first discovered in India. The government just on Monday expanded it to 15 other regions where infections are surging.
