Doctor group pleads for Jakarta residents to stay home for holidays


JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): With an increasing number of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations in the Indonesian capital city, a doctors association has called for residents of Jakarta to stay at home during the Christmas and New Year holidays to prevent a further spike in cases.

The hospital bed occupancy rate in the city's 98 Covid-19 referral hospitals had been increasing in the past month.

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