WHO: Test more suspected patients

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.