Jakarta: If the Indonesian authorities failed to take drastic measures to slow down the spread of Covid-19, the country could have tens of thousands of cases by April, or shortly before the Aidilfitri holiday, scientists have warned.
Disease surveillance and biostatistics researcher Iqbal Ridzi Fahdri Elyazar and his team at the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU) have used the geometric sequence method to see, “how much time it would take for the number of cases to double in Indonesia”.
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