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View all search resultsIndonesia is inching toward an endemic phase of the COVID-19 outbreak after the government lifted all of the remaining COVID-19 restrictions just before the turn of the year, but epidemiologists say the war on the virus is far from over.
Epidemiologists warn that the country is not yet out of the woods when it comes to the recent surge of cases driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, considering the persistently high death rates, fluctuating virus figures in Java and the continuing rise of cases in Bali and outlying regions.
Britain reported 41,385 new COVID cases on Monday, the highest number since testing became widely available in the middle of 2020, and English hospitals say they have more COVID patients than during the first wave of the pandemic in April.
The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has yet to approve the Sinovac vaccine’s distribution, saying it would extend the monitoring stage of the trials for another three months to determine the vaccine’s efficacy and side effects.
Over Idul Fitri, there was an 69 to 93 percent increase in weekly cumulative cases in 10-14 days, while the Independence Day extended weekend saw an increase of 58 to 118 percent within 10-14 days.
“Indonesia should refer to the WHO [World Health Organization] definition of a COVID-19 death and should implement it in the country for our own sake,” said Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Griffith University Australia.
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