Indonesia bans air, sea travel until June over virus fears

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Indonesia will ban all air and sea travel until June, officials said Thursday, in an apparent effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus during the holiest period on the Islamic calendar.

The repatriation of Indonesian citizens from abroad and foreigners living in the Southeast Asian archipelago will also be exempt.

“It applies to both domestic and international commercial travel but there are some exceptions,” Transportation Ministry spokeswoman Adita Irawati told AFP. The country’s biggest airlines Garuda and Lion Air had already scaled back their commercial flights as the tourism market shriveled up. But the ban on sea travel could hamper the movement of millions in a country of some 17,000 islands where passenger ferries are a key mode of transportation.

The government had already called on residents of major cities, including the capital Jakarta, to stay put.But the toll is widely believed to be much higher in a country with one of the lowest testing rates in the world.

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