Small shops, streetside restaurants and some shopping malls reopened in the coronavirus-battered nation after the government loosened a shutdown despite warnings it could unleash another Covid-19 wave.
President Joko Widodo said on Sunday that a partial lockdown imposed in early July would continue until Aug 2 even as the highly infectious Delta variant tears across the vast archipelago nation, which has overtaken India and Brazil to become the global pandemic epicentre.
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