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While the crisis is unprecedented in scale for the cruise sector, ship operators have extensive experience in dealing with the challenge of containing disease outbreaks. In fact, along with aviation, the cruising industry has the strictest health and safety controls of any tourism industry sector.
The ministry has emphasized avoiding travel to Daegu and Gyeongsang Bukdo, the two regions with the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea. The South Korean government has declared them “Special Care Zones”.
Parts of Indonesia have experienced unusually cold temperatures in the past few days, prompting authorities at the Dieng Plateau in Central Java and Mt. Semeru in East Java to warn tourists and hikers to bundle up before visiting.
Sympathy and solidarity from the international community continued to pour in, and no serious travel advisories were issued at the end of a bloody Sunday in East Java’s provincial capital Surabaya, where a family of six carried out suicide attacks targeting Christians observing mass.
As many as 120 mountaineers were rescued from Mount Merapi at midday on Friday in Boyolali, Central Java. The mountaineers were at the Pasar Bubrah or Post II area, only 2 kilometers from the mountain's apex, when the eruption happened.
Following the phreatic eruption of Mount Merapi at 7:32 a.m. on Friday, aviation authorities have yet to close Adi Soemarmo Airport in Surakarta, Central Java, although Yogyakarta’s Adisutjipto Airport was closed for 28 minutes until 11:10 a.m.
The United States Embassy in Jakarta has issued an alert for US citizens in anticipation of two rallies involving several Muslim organizations in Jakarta and Surabaya to protest against the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Friday morning.
