JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Indonesia surpassed Singapore as the country with the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia as the world's fourth-most populous nation ramped up testing across the archipelago to contain the pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Indonesia surpassed Singapore as the country with the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia as the world's fourth-most populous nation ramped up testing across the archipelago to contain the pandemic.
Indonesia has seen a surge in infections in recent weeks with the ramping up of virus testing as authorities began easing social distancing rules in capital Jakarta and other cities to revive an economy brought to a halt by the pandemic. President Joko Widodo and other officials have called for steps to prevent a second wave of infections and threatened to reimpose social distancing rules to contain the virus.
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