JAKARTA, Feb 7 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Covid-19 continues to spread across Indonesia, but the government has yet to pay serious attention to the detection of new variants of the novel coronavirus, which experts fear may further impede the country’s already-encumbered fight against the pandemic.
Neighboring countries that have been able to keep their outbreak relatively under control — Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand — have detected a new variant of the virus, B117, which is believed to be more transmissible and was first identified in Britain.