‘Zero local transmissions’

As Jakarta braces for a soft lockdown after recording more than 200 Covid-19 cases with 18 deaths, Bali, a hot spot for international tourists, has reported only four confirmed cases. And not a single of them is a local transmission. In the first weeks since the Health Ministry announced the first case of local transmission of the novel coronavirus on March 2, both the ministry and Balinese authorities had insisted the province only had one case: a British tourist known as Case 25 who died at Sanglah Hospital and was only known to have Covid-19 after her death.

She was defined as an imported case, not a local transmission.