A nurse is seen taking a swab sample from a patient at the Tanah Abang district office in Jakarta. The WHO as urged Indonesia to perform more Covid-19 test on the people due to their high rate of death in the country. - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network
JAKARTA, July 11 (The Jakarta Post/ ANN): The World Health Organisation has urged Indonesia to perform more Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on people suspected to have the illness because it has noted a “substantially high” number of deaths among patients under surveillance (PDP) and people under observation (ODP).
The WHO acknowledged that Indonesia had improved its testing capacity significantly but said many of the PCR tests had been used on people already known to have Covid-19 – as the old WHO guidelines required.
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