No recorded cases but Bali tourism still catches cold from Covid-19

A health worker sprays disinfectant in an ambulance after transferring a Japanese citizen suspected of being infected by the coronavirus from Badung Regional Hospital to Sanglah Hospital Denpasar, Bali, on March 3, 2020. - JP

BALI (The Jakarta Post/ANN): When Ketut Suarsa Dipa, 41, heard about an outbreak caused by a new strain of coronavirus in China in January, he was not particularly concerned.

But as the virus, later called SARS-CoV-2 which causes the Covid-19 disease, spread fast across the globe and dramatically reduced the number of foreign tourists coming to Bali, the freelance driver began to worry about whether he would earn enough for his family and perhaps even the possibility of getting infected himself.