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View all search resultsAmid an increasing number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the capital, a doctors association is calling on Jakartans to stay at home during the Christmas and New Year holidays to prevent a further spike in cases.
As calls for the government to speed up spending on its coronavirus response continue amid the expected post-holiday surge in new cases, the COVID-19 task force has said it has ample spending room.
As Indonesia struggles to suppress COVID-19 cases and deaths, government officials appear to be shifting the blame to hospitals by raising claims of false diagnoses -- which medical professionals say would erode public trust and further delay treatments, all the while missing the core of the problem: long testing turnaround times.
The Indonesian Hospital Association (PERSI) has expressed dismay over the government’s suggestion that some health facilities across the country had used COVID-19 diagnoses for profit, noting that it would only further erode public trust in the country’s healthcare system.
Medical workers in Jakarta are concerned about the increasing bed occupancy rates in the city’s hospitals and the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, with the capital extending on Thursday its transitional period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks.
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