Indonesia: Nearly half of Jakartans may have had Covid-19, serosurvey suggests

Patients rest on beds in a Covid-19 emergency ward at a government-run hospital in Jakarta on June 29. - Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA, July 18 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Nearly half of all Jakartans may have had Covid-19, some 15 times the reported figure, according to a recent seroprevalence survey that suggests that many of the cases were asymptomatic.

The University of Indonesia’s School of Public Health, the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and the Jakarta administration conducted antibody tests on 4,919 people above the age of 1 from around 100 subdistricts of the capital’s five municipalities and the Thousand Islands regency from March 15 to 31.