Indonesia focuses on at-home treatment as Covid-19 cases surge again in the country

Badie Uzzaman, 26, a volunteer of Indonesian NGO Dompet Dhuafa, talks with a Covid-19 patient undergoing self-isolation as he delivers free food, in South Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta on July 11, 2021. - Reuters

JAKARTA, Jan 29 (Jakarta Post/ANN): The government has said it will prioritise at-home treatment and telemedicine to treat Covid-19 patients in a bid to prevent the healthcare system from collapsing as cases start to rise across the country, partly driven by the transmissible Omicron variant.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that the government had prepared an array of measures, including ramping up telemedicine services, to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the country has started to record an uptick in infections.