Jakarta will remain under prevailing Covid-19 curbs at least for the time being, the government has announced, despite a recent case spike in the city that authorities have called “the first battleground” in the fight against the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The capital, excluding its extensive satellite cities, is home to some 12 million people and has been the worst-hit region in the current surge of coronavirus infections, accounting for more than half of the nation’s recent cases.
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