Heading home: Passengers carrying their luggage at a train station in Jakarta as they prepare to return to their hometowns for Hari Raya. — Reuters
THE government is as yet unable to determine whether local cases of the Indian and South African coronavirus variants were imported or somehow transmitted locally, once again displaying the country’s persistently poor contact-tracing and containment efforts over a year into the outbreak.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Monday that authorities had detected two cases of the Indian variant B1617, one case of the South African variant B1351 and three new cases of the UK variant B117, bringing Indonesia’s total caseload of UK variants to 13. The South African and UK variants are both categorised as variants of concern by the World Health Organisation as appearing “to spread more easily between people”.
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