Indonesian President Joko Widodo (left) inspects medical equipments at an emergency hospital set up amid the new coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 23, 2020. Indonesia has changed towers built to house athletes in the 2018 Asian Games to emergency hospitals with a 3,000-bed capacity in the country's hard-hit capital. - AP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): After receiving medical supplies from China, the country is set to hold Covid-19 tests in Jakarta, West Java and Banten, focusing on vulnerable groups including medical workers.
The government had distributed around 125,000 Covid-19 rapid testing kits as of Tuesday (March 24), mainly to the three provinces hardest-hit by the pandemic.
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