Indonesia sees record rise in cases as testing and tracing intensify

An employee takes the temperature of a customer waiting for a table outside a cafe as the capital city continues its partial lockdown restrictions due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Jakarta on June 14, 2020. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia has seen around 1,000 fresh coronavirus infections in a single day throughout this week, and epidemiologists warn that the trend may continue until at least the end of June as the authorities ramp up testing and contact tracing.

The world's fourth most-populous nation reported 1,241 new cases on Wednesday (June 10), a record single-day jump, and saw more than 1,000 cases on Tuesday (1,043), Friday (1,111) and Saturday (1,014), compared to several hundreds daily in the previous weeks.