Jakarta plans to double testing


The fight continues: Women wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walking past a street performer in a traditional ‘ondel-ondel’ costume in Jakarta. — AP

Jakarta plans to double its Covid-19 testing capacity in the near future, its governor said, as the capital fights surging infections that saw restrictions reimposed to slow the spread and help hospitals to cope.

Jakarta alone has seen more than 1,000 new daily cases on average this month, more than double the average in the first half of August, with the tide of infections piling

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