YAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Indonesia announced on Monday that the cases shown with coronavirus have exceeded 100,000, the amount in Southeast Asia.
Cases continue in the fourth most populous country in the world, as evidence remains very limited and businesses continue to reopen. The Ministry of Health announced another 1,525 instances on Monday, bringing the total number of the country to 100,303. It is idea that the actual number is significantly higher due to low tests and other factors.
“Today, the Indonesian country has reached a psychological number of 100,000 and reminds all parties that Indonesia is still in crisis.” COVID-19. »
While neighboring countries imposed blockades and closed their borders, Indonesian leaders attributed an obvious first good fortune from the pandemic to prayer and took few precautions to oppose the spread of the virus in the vast archipelago country until the first official cases were shown in early March.
As the virus began to spread, i.e. in metropolitan areas, the government instituted a blockade in six parts of the country.
These restrictions began to rise slowly in early June. Shopping malls and restaurants have reopened after installing plastic protectors and implementing temperature controls, flights across the country have resumed, and mototaxis have resumed operations with plastic protectors that separate drivers from their customers.
But the owners said they did not know of a foolproof way to prevent the spread of the virus in their businesses.
“As a businessman, we can take these measures,” said Jakarta’s cafeteria owner Amir Faisal, who installed acrylic screens on his coffee tables.
Some fitness experts continue to criticize the government’s resolve to reopen businesses.
“The government thinks only of the economy, in cases. The accumulation of people’s activities, meetings and paintings is potentially increasing the number,” said epidemiology expert Pandu Riono of the University of Indonesia.
Indonesia exceeded 50,000 cases shown at the end of June, and the government noted that the accumulation of infections was linked to workplaces such as offices and factories. Less than a month later, the number doubled.
“I also don’t know when the peak will come. Despite fluctuating developments, there are spaces that have decreased cases, some have increased,” said Doni Monardo, head of the COVID-19 group of runners.
Virus detection remains at one of the lowest rates in the world. In rural areas of the country, the effects can take days to return. Some sociologists say that a lack of coordination between national and local governments has led to mistakes.
“There is a communication challenge related to the government’s efforts to spread the government to others in society,” said Daisy Indira Yasmine, a sociologist at the University of Indonesia. “While the government seeks to tell others to stick to COVID-19 fitness protocols, there is a gap and distortion between them.
There are also cultural barriers. Prayers are still held in mosques across the country, leading to further outbreaks. Religious funeral customs led to the seizure of the bodies of the sick in hospitals, resulting in what the government called “groups of corpses.”
The government has shown no transparent signs of how the virus plans to spread and has canceled daily television briefings as it focuses on vaccine development.
Chancellor Retno Marsudi said last week that the government intends to have vaccines when they develop through partnerships with at least 3 pharmaceutical corporations in other countries.
“We are working in parallel with parties to get the quickest access to vaccines,” Marsudi said.
But with a viable vaccine and good enough production for the entire population in at least months, some fitness experts are not sure that using a vaccine is the right solution for Indonesia to its outbreak.
“It turns out we need some magic here to solve the pandemic by locating a vaccine. But the vaccine is not the only solution,” Riono said.
Instead, he said, the government deserves to prepare tactics for possible new infection teams.
In Jakarta, which continues to have one of the highest rates of daily infections shown, attitudes towards the virus have become more lax. Some cafes are crowded and do not have the recommended space among customers, grocery shopping centers have more unmasked people and it becomes less difficult between parts of the country.
“When the government lifted the restrictions, others began to gather around posts that were once closed, such as mosques and jobs,” Riono said, referring to the construction in instances in Jakarta.
A patient who recovered from COVID-19 but lost his father-in-law in April, Simon Nainggolan, said Indonesia is still a long way from ending its epidemic.
“People who want to do their homework should be more attentive to fitness protocols,” Nainggolan said.
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