Indonesia has surpassed a grim milestone in its worst pandemic wave yet — 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
There are concerns the actual figure could be far higher, as the Delta variant wreaks havoc across the country.
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More than a year into the pandemic, Indonesia has the most COVID-19 cases and highest fatality rate in Southeast Asia and still grapples with disorganised COVID-19 data management.
Lebih dari setahun dalam bekapan pandemi, Indonesia memiliki angka kasus COVID-19 terbanyak dan tingkat kematian tertinggi di Asia Tenggara.
An effective response to a global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic is dependent on health departments and governments having access to information that is up to date and collated through a central system.
Jemma Purdey, Adjunct Fellow at Monash University and Deakin University, said while the Australian government’s commitment to help is “great”, it’s also “never really enough”.
Indonesia’s Greysia Polii wanted to quit badminton five years ago, but a fresh-faced partner has given her a new lease of life and taken them to an Olympic final.
This week, AIC Indonesia Director Kevin Evans joined hundreds of thousands of others who received their COVID-19 vaccinations.
A proposal to waive a range of intellectual property measures for COVID-19 vaccines and other health technologies will come before the WTO this week, and Australia must support it.
Gesti Wira Nugrayekti tested positive for coronavirus the day before she prematurely gave birth to a baby boy named Salman earlier this month.
Three weeks later, COVID-19 took her life.
Research from PAIR suggests Indonesia should partner with developed nations, such as Australia, to build resilient and responsive healthcare supply chains involving modern digital technologies.
The pandemic has highlighted deep-rooted problems in health service. Medical workers voicing out their concerns have put governments on the defensive.
Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus.
When Indonesian President Joko Widodo spoke with influential business groups on June 30 to discuss imposing a full-scale lockdown as Covid-19 cases spiked, he was met with widespread resistance.
Many Indonesians and others across Asia getting vaccinated while on vacation — what one tour company has dubbed “Air V&V”.
Indonesia has become the new epicenter of the pandemic, surpassing India and Brazil to become the country with the world’s highest count of new infections.
While COVID-19 has overwhelmed the best healthcare systems in developed nations, resource-limited hospitals in countries such as Indonesia faced even greater, unprecedented challenges.
