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Coronavirus COVID-19 has now reached Indonesia, President Joko Widodo confirms

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இந்தோனேஷியா இந்த கொரோனா வைரஸை பற்றி இவ்வளவு காலமும் ஒன்றுமே கூறவில்லை என யோசிப்பதுண்டு..

 

Coronavirus COVID-19 has now reached Indonesia, President Joko Widodo confirms

By Alan Weedon

Posted Yesterday, updated 22h

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President Joko Widodo confirmed the country's first cases earlier today.(AP: Achmad Ibrahim)

 

Indonesia has recorded its first cases of COVID-19, after two nationals tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday.

Key points:


  • Two women tested positive for COVID-19 and are being treated in a Jakarta hospital

  • President Joko Widodo says the country is well prepared for the outbreak

  • Experts have questioned the country's COVID-19 quarantine and screening procedures

At Jakarta's State Palace, President Joko Widodo told local media the people infected — a 64-year-old mother and her 31-year-old daughter from West Java — had been in contact with a Japanese citizen who later tested positive for the virus.

He said this prompted Indonesian authorities to track down and test the two women after they were notified of the Japanese citizen's positive test result on February 27.

Indonesia's Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto confirmed the two women were being treated at Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital.

The news comes after the Indonesian Government evacuated dozens of Indonesian staff working on the COVID-19-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship on Sunday, after they pleaded for an official evacuation last week.

The ship has since been linked to hundreds of new infections after all staff and passengers were put into quarantine on board while anchored at Yokohama in early February.

So far, the virus has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide and infected more than 89,000, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.

In all, more than 45,000 people have recovered from the infection.

'Over 100 hospitals with good isolation standards'

China has had over 80,000 cases of the coronavirus, more than any other country.(Xinhua: Xiong Qi)

Mr Widodo sought to allay fears that the world's fourth-most populous country was lagging behind other countries in being able to prepare for and identify coronavirus cases.

"We have prepared over 100 hospitals with isolation rooms with good isolation standards. We also have equipment that meets international standards," he said.

Up until Monday, Indonesia had maintained that it was free from the virus, which led experts to question quarantine and screening procedures in the archipelago of more than 270 million.

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In the weeks after the novel coronavirus was first identified, the country was slow to suspend direct flights from the epicentre in Wuhan, China, to Bali. Some 1.3 million Chinese tourists visited Indonesia last year.

There have also been calls to close self-proclaimed "extreme" meat markets in Indonesia's regional provinces, which sell species for human consumption including bats, rats, snakes and dogs.

Exotic animals consumed by humans have previously been the trigger for previous coronavirus outbreaks including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), owing to civets (a cat-like animal) and camels respectively.

Previously, when asked how it was possible Indonesia had no confirmed cases, the Health Minister, Mr Putranto, pinned it to divine intervention.

"In medical terms, prayers," he said.

"All because of prayers."

 

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-02/indonesia-records-first-cases-of-covid-19-coronavirus/12018090?pfmredir=sm

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/first-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-indonesia-amid-fears-nation-is-ill-prepared-for-outbreak

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