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View all search resultsPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has declared an end to the national emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country now looks forward to further economic recovery after more than three years of disruption and tragedy.
The rate of COVID-19 testing in Indonesia has dropped significantly in the last two months as the pandemic situation continues to improve across the country after the Omicron-fueled third wave reached its peak in mid-February.
The word "endemic" has become quite the buzzword in recent weeks as the Omicron-fueled surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths substantially decline in Indonesia, and while the government continues easing restrictions that have been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago.
Authorities have revealed that a recent surge of COVID-19 infections tied to the highly contagious Omicron variant had an especially devastating impact on millions of Indonesians with diabetes, with the chronic illness being the most common comorbidity associated with coronavirus deaths in the past two months.
While the government works to improve online treatment services for self-isolating COVID-19 patients amid the ongoing third wave of the pandemic, reports continue to surface about complications in the use of telehealth apps.
A third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has begun to take hold across the country, with the Omicron variant of the virus believed to have driven a surge in cases and hospitalization in the capital, where more than 80 percent of the population has been vaccinated.
The government has promised to continue accelerating the primary COVID-19 vaccination among the country's target population of 234 million, despite having started rolling out booster shots to the general public last week.
The government has played down the threat of the more transmissible Omicron strain of COVID-19, with officials suggesting that the situation in the country remains under control despite an uptick in pandemic indicators.
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