THE nation’s daily coronavirus positivity rate dropped below the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) benchmark standard of 5% this week for the first time, an indicator that the country’s devastating second wave could be easing.
The positivity rate, or the proportion of people tested who are positive, peaked at 33.4% in July when Indonesia became Asia’s coronavirus epicentre, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.
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