Snaking queues at Jakarta airport as crowds ignore distancing rules


  • World
  • Thursday, 14 May 2020

A crowd of people with luggages stand in line at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tangerang, Indonesia, May 14, 2020. REUTERS

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of travellers queued cheek by jowl at an airport terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday, ignoring regulations on social distancing and despite an official lockdown slated to run until the start of June.

Photographs posted on social media, days after the government announced that several airlines could conditionally resume operations, showed passengers queuing to enter the airport and crowding inside the terminal.

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