Indonesia pressured to do more to detect coronavirus amid zero reported cases

JAKARTA - Concerns about how the Indonesian government is handling the coronavirus outbreak have grown as none of the 132 Indonesian lab tests for the virus have come back positive as of Wednesday .

"The patient had tested negative for the coronavirus based on an observation from the Health Research and Development Agency in Jakarta. Balitbangkes did the examination," Agoes said. The diplomatic community in Jakarta and public health experts, however, have raised concerns about the accuracy of the lab tests.

Another point was"many hospitals do not have adequate PPE , not enough isolation beds, and specimen transportation is inadequate," according to the Herald. A microbiology researcher from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences , Sugiyono Saputra, suggested Indonesian health authorities send samples from suspected coronavirus patients to the WHO-appointed referral laboratories for confirmation amid growing scepticism at home.

We should seriously consider severely limiting travel from Indonesia and testing those who enter

They are determined to keep their number of detected cases at zero, at all costs. Denial is the cheapest way.

This kind of money better don’t save. Better be safe than regret later on. If not, later spread the entire country then God bless you~

Tak ada. Ada udah kubur.

zero test = zero case Indonesia will never have this coronavirus problem XD

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