Life to return to normal in East Java city as Indonesia trials living with Covid-19


Blitar has seen low levels of coronavirus transmission as well as high vaccination rates. - Reuters

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Life will return to normal in Blitar, in East Java, by next week, the first city to do so in Indonesia as the authorities conduct a test on living with Covid-19.

The move comes after South-East Asia's most populous nation managed to bring under control the latest wave of the disease triggered after Hari Raya this year in May. The seven-day average for infections peaked in mid-July with 50,000 cases daily.

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