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Indonesia to Enforce Stricter Curbs to Halt Spike in Covid

  • Panjaitan appointed to coordinate Java, Bali restrictions
  • Government to make official announcement on the curbs soon
Medical personnel tend to Covid-19 patients in a tent set up outside a hospital in Bogor, Java, in Indonesia, on June 29.

Medical personnel tend to Covid-19 patients in a tent set up outside a hospital in Bogor, Java, in Indonesia, on June 29.

Photographer: Aditya Aji/AFP/Getty Images

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Indonesia is set to enforce stricter restrictions of a larger scale in a bid to halt a rapid rise in coronavirus infections.

The new measures will be comprehensive and people living in heavily-infected areas will be asked to stay at home and avoid non-essential travel, Alexander Ginting, a member of the Covid-19 taskforce said in a televised interview with Metro TV on Tuesday. The government is finalizing the plan and an official announcement will be made soon, he added.