Indonesia watching Riau Islands, North Kalimantan due to COVID-19 cases imported from Malaysia: Health minister

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government is paying close attention to several provinces that have reported a significant increase in COVID-19 cases recently, including Riau Islands and North Kalimantan where there has been more imported cases from Malaysia, said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

“Riau Islands is high because this is where we receive a lot of migrant Indonesian workers coming from Malaysia. In Kalimantan, the province that we have to take care of is North Kalimantan."Although the province adjacent to the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak is currently categorised as level two, the government’s data shows that many of the cases are imported, he said.

But authorities have taken precautionary measures by lengthening the quarantine time to 14 days for travellers from India, Pakistan and the Philippines.SPIKE IN CASES AFTER IDUL FITRI EXPECTED TO PEAK BY END JUNE The minister said the government has also prepared the health workers who have been vaccinated, unlike during the previous Christmas and New Year holidays, as the vaccination programme only kicked off in January. Medicines have also been stocked up.

“A few days ago, it reached 6,000 cases per day. But it is still below the 13,000 although it doesn’t mean we are not careful," he said. Indonesia has yet to impose a strict national-level lockdown. The government initially opted for large-scale social restrictions at the provincial and city level. When asked if a hybrid strain that was first detected in Vietnam has been found in Indonesia, the minister said:"We stick to scientific data. So we only monitor the variants of concern that were determined by the WHO."

An Indonesian soldier reacts while receiving a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine for the coronavirus disease , during a mass vaccination program at a sport hall in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Mar 10, 2021.

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