Heru Andriyanto & Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – Indonesia has administered 5.48 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine since the campaign began on January 13, with 4.02 million people hav
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March 14, 2021
March 13, 2021
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria stated that the capital city government has inoculated the first doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 483,492 people.
March 12, 2021
Jakarta – The Nusantara vaccine is not suitable for Indonesia, which needs to inoculate large numbers of people.
Antara, Jakarta – Bali now has recorded 1,000 Covid-19 deaths after four more people died from the virus.
Pribadi Wicaksono (Contributor), Yogyakarta – The number of Covid-19 cases in Yogyakarta keeps rising, bringing the total to almost 30,000.
Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has no plan to delay the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccine it received via global procurement scheme Covax, a spokesperson said
Authorities in Bali's Badung regency announced that it has recorded over 2,200 people violating health protocols in the last two months, hundreds of whom – including more than 300 forei
March 10, 2021
Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said the Covid-19 mortality rate of health workers in February 2021 decreased significantly by 63 percent.
Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy said the government planned to provide GeNose, the screening tool to detect Covid-19 usin
Antara, Bogor – Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto said the Covid-19 vaccines injected into health workers in the city have started to work well which is evident from zero cases of coronavi
March 9, 2021
Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Ombudsman Head Teguh Nugroho stressed that a request for the Covid-19 vaccination for families of the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) members is ag
Nelson Da Cruz, Kate Lamb, Dili – The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor will put its capital city on a coronavirus lockdown for the first time, its government said on Monday, am
Bisnis.Com, Jakarta – The Indonesian Private Hospital Association (ARSSI) Secretary-General Ichsan Hanafi said 700 private hospitals handling Covid-19 cases have not yet received incent
March 8, 2021
Kevin O'Rourke – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities worldwide, including in the administration of vaccines.
Three days after the first suspected case of Covid-19 was announced last year in Tulungagung, East Java, 55-year-old Sutikno came up with a unique idea: As he harvested the dry, fan-sha
Jakarta – Indonesia announced last week that it had identified two new cases of the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, which was first detected in the UK late last year.
Jakarta – Indonesia received 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine from the global vaccine procurement program Covax on Monday afternoon.
Sheany – The issue of privilege resurfaced on Indonesian Twitter over the weekend, after one user showed a photo of foreigners without masks when boarding a Citilink flight from Denpasa
The Health Ministry has announced an updated schedule for its COVID-19 mass vaccination program, with the general public now expected to begin receiving their shots in September.
March 5, 2021
Ika Krismantari – A year into the pandemic, Indonesia has made no significant progress in containing COVID-19 since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first two cases on March
March 3, 2021
Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Health Ministry on Wednesday has officially started to vaccinate Ulemas in Indonesia amidst the phase two Covid-19 vaccination program with 250 members of th
Indonesia has become the latest country to detect the B117 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Health Ministry has confirmed, with the more contagious mutation found in two recent COVID
Antara, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin asked the public wishing to get the Covid-19 vaccine to be patient, as the distribution process is carried out in stages.
Bisnis, Jakarta – A research that was conducted by the University of Indonesia Faculty of Medicine's department of mental health and Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) revealed
Yesterday marked one year since Indonesia first officially recorded COVID-19 cases in the country.
March 2, 2021
Natasia Christy Wahyuni & Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Health Ministry recently announced the new coronavirus B117 variant – which was first detected in the UK – has entered In
It was exactly a year ago that Indonesia officially reported the first COVID-19 cases on its soil.
Ardila Syakriah and Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – When Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin was sworn into the position in December 2020, he said this about the country's COVID-19 efforts: "W
Friski Riana, Jakarta – It has been a year exactly to the day since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first Covid-19 case in Indonesia on March 2, 2020, and since then the co
March 1, 2021
Talks of opening up Bali to mass tourism have sprung up again recently as the province's daily COVID-19 cases dropped in recent weeks, with Bali Governor Wayan Koster saying that there
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government categorized 6,422 neighboring units or RTs as COVID-19 red zones or at high risk of coronavirus transmission.
Max Lane – Indonesia's pandemic response and relief efforts continue to struggle with the tensions between economic and health priorities.
February 28, 2021
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Tech giant Grab and health platform Good Doctor have opened up Southeast Asia's first Covid-19 vaccination drive-thru in Bali to inoculate thousands touris
Jakarta (Bloomberg) – South-east Asia's ride-hailing giant Grab Holdings is setting up drive-through vaccination services in Indonesia in collaboration with the government to help the n
February 27, 2021
Nicholas Ryan Aditya, Jakarta – Yesterday, on Friday February 26, the public was surprised to hear the news that all of a sudden Covid-19 vaccinations were being conducted at the House
Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Jakarta – Indonesian scientists are planning to sequence 10,000 samples of COVID-19 this year to detect variants of the virus that may be circulating around the vas
Jakarta – Indonesian health authorities have administered 2.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccine since mass vaccination campaign began on Jan.
Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria said the capital city administration has injected 214,523 doses Covid-19 Vaccine; 141,225 doses in the first phase and
Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is in discussions with Sinopharm and Moderna about purchasing their COVID-19 vaccines to be used in one of the world's first private
February 25, 2021
Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry and the Health Ministry have started Covid-19 vaccination for religious leaders at the Istiqlal Mosque, Central Jakarta, on Thurs
Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – The Anti-Injustice Social Coalition has reported President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to the police criminal investigations directorate for alleged violations of h
Jakarta – Indonesia will receive at least two million doses of a coronavirus vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm for use in a private vaccination scheme due to run alongside a nationa
Andita Rahma, Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – A watchdog group naming themselves the People's Coalition Against Injustice filed a criminal complaint against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to the
Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, predicted on Thursday, February 25, 2021, that 70 million Indonesians –
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia has vaccinated 1.46 million medical workers since the campaign began on Jan.
February 24, 2021
Chairul Fikri, Banten – At least 15 medical workers in South Tangerang, Banten province, were diagnosed with coronavirus and some of them have earlier received two doses of vaccine, a l
February 23, 2021
Evarukdijati, Rahmad Nasution, Jayapura, Papua – The Papua provincial government's COVID-19 Task Force disclosed that novel coronavirus disease keeps posing serious threats to residents
Usman Hamid – As Indonesia's Covid-19 case count continues to climb past one million, the government's disregard of other public health measures in favour of an aggressive mandatory vac
An Indonesian nurse has died from COVID-19 after receiving one of two mandatory vaccine shots, with the government highlighting the importance of adherence to health protocols on top of
February 21, 2021
Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has distributed seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for the first phase of vaccination of the elderly in the country that will commen