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Indonesia confirms record 1,338 new coronavirus deaths

Editorial Bureau July 19, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia confirmed a record 1,338 new coronavirus deaths on Monday, data from its COVID-19 task force showed, taking the total number of fatalities to 74,920. The number of new infections on Monday was 34,257, the data showed, the lowest daily number since July 6.

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Hundreds of inoculated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19

Editorial Bureau June 17, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) -More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught COVID-19 in Indonesia despite having gotten jabs of Sinovac and dozens have been admitted in hospitals, officials said. Concerns have grown about how effective some vaccines are against more infectious variants. Most of the workers were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, said Badai Ismoyo,

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Indonesia confirms 12,624 new COVID-19 cases, highest rise since January

Editorial Bureau June 17, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia reported on Thursday 12,624 new coronavirus infections, the biggest increase since Jan. 30, health ministry data showed. The total number of infections rose to 1,950,276, while the health ministry also reported 277 new COVID-19 deaths, taking total fatalities to 53,753.

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22-year -old dies after immunisation, Indonesia suspends a batch of AstraZeneca

Editorial Bureau May 16, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – The health ministry of Indonesia has informed that following the death of a 22-year-old man a day after immunisation, the country has suspended a batch of AstraZeneca PLC’s novel coronavirus vaccine to run tests for sterility and toxicity. The “CTMAV547” batch consists of 448,480 vaccine doses that arrived in the Southeast

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Indonesian leader urges for more effort to find submarine as oxygen falls short

Editorial Bureau April 22, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia’s president ordered more efforts to find a missing submarine to save the 53 crew, whose oxygen supply defence chiefs said would continue to last only until Saturday. Indonesia sent a helicopter and five ships to search waters north of the holiday island of Bali but found no signs of the KRI […]

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Myanmar: Security forces kill nine protesters, Indonesia calls for end to violence

Editorial Bureau March 19, 2021

Military and police have used increasingly violent tactics to suppress demonstrations by supporters of detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but that has not put off the protesters, with crowds turning out again in several towns. On Feb 1, security forces shot dead nine opponents, a funeral services provider and media said. Security forces […]

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Indonesia places order for 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses over private inoculations

Editorial Bureau March 15, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Indonesia hopes to receive 20.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna Inc and China’s Sinopharm from the second quarter for use in a private vaccination scheme, said the head of a state pharmaceutical firm on Monday. Indonesia had given authorisation of one of the world’s first private vaccination programmes last

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Two cases of British COVID-19 variant reported in Indonesia

Editorial Bureau March 2, 2021

JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – Wiku Adisasmito, the spokesman for Indonesia’s COVID-19 task force said on Tuesday that the country has reported two cases of the more infectious COVID-19 variant first discovered in Britain. However, he declined to comment further on the new variant, known as B117.

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Efforts of Indonesia to defuse growing crisis in Myanmar falter

Editorial Bureau February 24, 2021

YANGON (MYANMAR) – The efforts of Indonesia to help defuse the crisis in Myanmar with the help of other Southeast Asian nations appear to be faltering with a proposed diplomatic visit cancelled. This comes as Myanmar was set for more street agitations on Wednesday against the junta. There were mammoth rallies this week and a […]

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Indonesian beach sees death of dozens of whales, rescuers save three

Editorial Bureau February 19, 2021

BANGKALAN (INDONESIA) – Forty-six whales, which were marooned on a beach on the Indonesian island of Madura have surrendered to death. However, rescuers managed to bring three of them back to safety, the provincial governor said on Friday. A rescue effort was initiated on Thursday after dozens of pilot whales beached. Volunteers helped bring some […]