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View all search resultsThe government only covers COVID-19 treatment, including tests, for those showing symptoms. The high price of a PCR test discourages people from paying out of their own pocket, so many decide not to get tested at all.
Indonesia is in a race against time to contain the COVID-19 outbreak as patients overrun health facilities and medical workers are overwhelmed, but primary efforts to break the chain of transmission are still far from expected, epidemiologists say.
The Australian state at the center of the country's second wave coronavirus outbreak is deepening its contact tracing program to try to maintain a steady decline in daily new cases, amid criticism of its handling of the crisis.
Breaking the chain of transmission is key to containing the COVID-19 outbreak, but in Indonesia, contact tracing remains weak due to problems ranging from an insufficient number of tracers to people's reluctance to open up to these workers.
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