Indonesia says zero coronavirus cases 'a blessing from God'

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s health minister defended the country’s screening process for coronavirus on Thursday and said the absence of confirmed cases in the world’s fourth-most populous nation was a “blessing from the Almighty”.

“If until this second all have come out negative, then it’s a blessing from the Almighty,” he told reporters. The death of a 37-year-old man in Semarang in Central Java who was suffering pneumonia after returning from overseas was not caused by the coronavirus, but by H1N1 flu, he said. Indonesia has tested relatively few people in comparison to some neighbours and its population, but Putranto said tests were conducted when “doctors determine they have symptoms that point to that direction.”Navaratnasamy Paranietharan, the World Health Organization’s Indonesia representative, has said the WHO was “quite confident that Indonesia is ready to be able to respond to this situation”.

maaflah.. macam tak percaya je..

That pride-talk should qualify for a revocation of any blessing really really soon now. Knock on wood.

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