Indonesia virus death toll rises to highest in Asia outside China

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A man ducks under a ‘No Entry’ banner set up at an alleyway at a low-income neighbourhood in Jakarta.

The data comes amid alarm expressed by some medical experts and officials that President Joko Widodo’s government has been slow to bring in measures similar to those in other countries to curb the spread of the virus. A model from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford estimated the number as close to 80,000.

“What we’re doing is providing an additional programme to limit the dispersal of mudik travellers,” Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara said after a cabinet meeting.

 

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