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View all search resultsIndependent data initiative LaporCOVID-19 has reported that at least 2,641 COVID-19 patients in Indonesia have died in self-isolation or while awaiting emergency care during the pandemic’s second wave.
Police set out barbed wire and concrete barricades around the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Saturday in an effort to tighten security after calls for an antigovernment march spread among the public.
In the second year of the pandemic, efforts to fulfill children’s rights must be a priority and the government response must be child-friendly, nongovernmental child organization Save the Children's Indonesia office said, as the country celebrates National Children’s Day on Friday.
Some regions outside Java are pleading for the central government’s help as hospitals fill up with patients amid medical oxygen and vaccine supply shortages, sparking fears the crisis on Java will also occur on other islands.
While the government appears to be taking serious measures to enforce the PPKM Darurat for Java and Bali, including mobilizing a joint police-military force, experts say that a multitude of successive COVID-19 policies has sowed public confusion and apathy.
The Health Ministry has announced it will seek to administer a first COVID-19 vaccine dose to 181.5 million Indonesians by the end of the year, three months earlier than the initial plan, even though the current drive has covered less than a quarter of the elderly population.
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