JAKARTA/BOGOR (REUTERS) - Indonesia is not hiding anything over the coronavirus, the health minister said on Tuesday (Feb 11), after some medical researchers expressed concern that cases may have gone undetected in the world's fourth most populous country.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA/BOGOR - Indonesia is not hiding anything over the coronavirus, the health minister said on Tuesday , after some medical researchers expressed concern that cases may have gone undetected in the world's fourth most populous country.
Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in the United States, then said in a study last week that Indonesia should rapidly strengthen outbreak surveillance and control - especially given that it had direct flights from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus.
Indonesia has tested 64 samples from suspected coronavirus infections - 62 of which were declared negative with two still being tested, health ministry Research and development agency head Siswanto said during a tour of its laboratory in Jakarta.
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