Reuters review of data from 16 of Indonesia’s 34 provinces suggests COVID-19 deaths far higher than official toll.
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Data from 16 provinces shows 2,212 patients with Covid-19 symptoms died, but were not tested and recorded as victims. Meanwhile nearly 20,000 other suspected cases have not been tested because of laboratory delays
The government has banned this year’s mudik to curb the transmission of the disease, but that was not the only good news this week. The Jakarta Post has compiled some additional positive stories.
Yes, the Indonesian government has stumbled. But civil society has been rising to the occasion.
The Indonesian government’s COVID-19 prevention apps offer no novel features, yet expose users to privacy risks.
Elevators are an artifact of the past; everyone now has to take the stairs, keeping their distance from others all the way.
Universitas Airlangga released a booklet in April to guide community efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19, including information about the disease and how it spreads.
At times like these religious advice can make for sound public health policy and practice. Muhammadiyah’s response to the coronavirus pandemic combines Salafi legal reasoning with medical pragmatism.
Thousands are still without housing or hospitals after 2018 earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction destroyed the area.
The decision is an about-face from the Jokowi administration’s previous policy of merely advising the public not to participate in the mudik.
Dean of the UGM Postgraduate School, Prof. Siti Malkhamah, added that there were several main steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19, including keeping a distance, working and studying at home, and worshiping at home.
Some 33 percent said they could no longer meet their basic needs without taking out a loan, while 20 percent said their savings could only sustain them for a month at most.
The event tasks students and their mentors to design a variety of ventilator components that could be manufactured locally within an emergency time frame.
Working in the developing world, in Afghanistan, Timor Leste, Kenya and Ethiopia showed Professor Sutton the power of what public health could achieve, with projects capable of saving thousands of lives.
Australia has ramped up its assistance to the Pacific in line with its broader Pacific Step Up approach. But another close neighbours, Indonesia, has had its Australian aid cut by almost 50% in the past five years from $551m to $255m.
Researchers from The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Monash University and the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, have achieved a world-first breakthrough in ventilator splitting.
