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ASEAN Expands Covid-19 Fund to Prep against Future Pandemics

Jakarta. ASEAN is expanding its remaining Covid-19 response fund to better prepare against future pandemics. The years-long Covid-19 pandemic taught ASEAN an important lesson of the need to strengthen health resilience. When Covid-19 struck ASEAN, the ...
News Aug 24, 2023 | 3:09 pm

Gov’t Confirms Covid-19 Vaccines Are Still Free

Jakarta. The government Thursday announced that Covid-19 vaccines are still free, thus encouraging people to use this chance to get their jabs. The statement came a day after Indonesia declared an end to the pandemic status for Covid-19 after most ...
News Jun 22, 2023 | 11:24 am

Indonesia Says Goodbye to Covid-19 Pandemic

Jakarta. Indonesia on Wednesday officially revoked its pandemic status for Covid-19 as the serosurvey has shown people already have developed antibodies against the virus. “After more than three years of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, as of today, the ...
News Jun 21, 2023 | 3:37 pm

Gov’t to Declare Covid-19 as Endemic

Jakarta. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Wednesday his government will soon declare Covid-19 as an endemic, thus ending the pandemic status which has haunted the country’s economic and social activities in the last three years. In epidemiology ...
News Jun 14, 2023 | 5:44 pm

South Korea to End Covid-19 Testing Recommendation for Travelers

Seoul. South Korea will drop its Covid-19 quarantine requirements and end testing recommendations for international arrivals starting next month after the World Health Organization declared the end of the global health emergency. In lowering the ...
News May 11, 2023 | 10:13 am

Healthcare Budget No Longer Focuses on Covid-19: Minister

Jakarta. The government on Wednesday said the 2023 healthcare budget would put a greater emphasis on non-Covid issues such as stunting, a chronic malnutrition problem that impedes the country’s quest of fostering quality human capital. Over the past years ...
News Feb 1, 2023 | 3:42 pm

Not Just for Covid-19 Tracing: Gov’t to Upgrade PeduliLindungi

Jakarta. The government is planning to upgrade the Covid-19 tracing app PeduliLindungi into a more comprehensive citizen health app that also stores the patient's medical record and is linked to all healthcare facilities across the country. Over the past ...
Tech Jan 6, 2023 | 12:26 pm

Jokowi Rescinds Covid-19 Restrictions

Jakarta. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally annulled the Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, nearly three years after they were imposed in the wake of the pandemic in 2020. The president said the much-awaited decision was based on the steady decline in ...
News Dec 30, 2022 | 3:13 pm

Gov’t Signals Covid-19 Pandemic is Over

Jakarta. The government signaled on Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic is on course to become endemic, in which the disease remains frequent but is limited to certain areas. Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said there has been no drastic surge ...
News Dec 29, 2022 | 8:25 am

Indonesia Discontinues Largest Covid-19 Hospital

Jakarta. The Indonesian government has decided to discontinue its largest, makeshift Covid-19 hospital occupying the former Asian Games athletes’ village or Wisma Atlet in Jakarta due to a steady decline in new cases, according to a memo released on ...
News Dec 24, 2022 | 11:05 pm

Jokowi Signals End to Entire Covid-19 Restrictions

Jakarta. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Wednesday indicated that his government will lift all social restrictions related to Covid-19 that have been in place for nearly three years, suggesting that the country is now well-equipped to deal with the ...
News Dec 21, 2022 | 1:06 pm

BUMN Covid-19 Vaccine Kicks Off Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Jakarta. The phase 3 clinical trial for the homegrown Covid-19 vaccine developed by state-run pharmaceutical company Bio Farma and US medical school Baylor College of Medicine officially kicked off on Thursday. About 4,050 people between the age of 18 and ...
News Jun 9, 2022 | 4:26 pm

The Coca-Cola Foundation Grants Rp 7.9b to Support Indonesia’s Covid-19 Vaccination Programs

Jakarta. The Coca-Cola Foundation or TCCF, the global philanthropic arm of the beverage company, said that it has granted more than Rp 7.9 billion in funds to support Indonesia’s Covid-19 vaccination. The Coca-Cola Foundation distributed this “Stop the ...
Special Updates May 26, 2022 | 12:18 pm

99 in 100 People in Indonesia Have Covid-19 Antibodies

Jakarta. More than 99 percent of the Indonesian population already has antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, from vaccination and natural infections, a government serology survey in March finds. The survey result reflects the ...
News Apr 19, 2022 | 4:52 pm

Covid-19 Tests No Longer Required for Fully-Vaccinated Domestic Travelers

Jakarta. The government has decided to drop the antigen and polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test requirement for domestic travels as the country's latest Covid-19 wave receded, a senior minister said on Monday. Under the new policy, people who have ...
Lifestyle Mar 7, 2022 | 6:19 pm

Gov’t to Reimburse Hospitals Rp 25 Trillion for Covid-19 Handling

Jakarta. The government will pay back hospitals an additional Rp 25 trillion ($1.7 billion) for allocating beds for Covid-19 patients last year, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Monday. Hospitals across the country were encouraged to share at ...
News Feb 21, 2022 | 9:19 pm

Covid-19 Peak Has Passed in Five Provinces

Jakarta. The government claimed on Monday that at least five provinces including the national capital of Jakarta have seemingly passed the peak of their latest Covid-19 wave. Indonesia has recorded 34,418 new cases in the past 24 hours, down by nearly 10, ...
News Feb 21, 2022 | 6:40 pm

Jakarta Church Opens Covid-19 Vaccination Site for Booster Jabs

Jakarta. A Batak Christian Protestant church, or HKBP, in Menteng, Central Jakarta has opened a walk-in Covid-19 vaccination site for those eligible to the government’s booster dose program regardless of their religious orientation. The temporary ...
Vision Feb 10, 2022 | 11:54 am

Wisma Atlet Covid-19 Hospital Tops 5,000 Patients

Jakarta. The number of Covid-19 patients at Wisma Atlet makeshift hospital in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, has surpassed 5,000 in the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said on Thursday. The makeshift hospital occupying the athletes’ village has a ...
News Feb 3, 2022 | 6:51 pm

Daily Covid-19 Count Tops 8,000

Jakarta. Indonesia recorded 8,077 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the highest daily tally since September 3 of last year, government figures show. There have been 4.3 million confirmed cases including 144,261 deaths in the country since the pandemic began ...
News Jan 27, 2022 | 6:15 pm