Indonesian capital starts cinema reopening programme as Covid-19 cases are getting much lesser; only 3,145 cases on Thursday (Sept 16)


Visitors wearing protective masks walk at a shopping mall after the ease of restrictions amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday (Sept 16, 2021). - Reuters

JAKARTA, Sept. 16 (Xinhua): The administration of Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Thursday started conducting its pilot cinema reopening program as the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the city was declining, a city official said.

The Jakarta tourism agency's acting head Gumilar Ekalaya said all movie theatres in the city are now using a mobile application called PeduliLindungi for digital contact tracing to help control Covid-19.

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