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So Indonesia has around 160,000 active COVID-19 cases, new cases are rising at over 10k a day, and media reports quote experts suggesting the hospital system is close to collapse. Vaccinations have started, focusing on medical workers, but progress so far is slow (early days).
Officially around 30,000 are dead. Many suggest the real numbers, (of cases and deaths) are far higher.
Meanwhile the limits of flight capacity (which were routinely ignored anyway) have been lifted, and the national carrier Garuda is running promos to get more people to fly.
Meanwhile the limits of flight capacity (which were routinely ignored anyway) have been lifted, and the national carrier Garuda is running promos to get more people to fly.
Ferrys run as normal. Covid tests to board are a joke. As an archipelago, Indonesia has obvious natural defenses which could assist in limiting growth of cases. I mean yeah it is already everywhere, but still...
So it seems a lot of left hand meet right hand.
So it seems a lot of left hand meet right hand.
If, as media reports suggest, hospitals being to collapse (by that they mean they’ll no longer take new patients), what happens then? By the official numbers, the death rate is low, but the positivity rate (around 30%) is mind blowing. Testing rates remain abysmal.
Plenty of hope in a vaccine, but that could take years to reach enough people, going on the rates so far. So until then there’s going to be ever +ve cases, and I’d guess rising deaths (as hospitals full).
So I’m just wondering, what is it going to take to bring on a wider, more strictly enforced lockdown? Starting with flights and non-essential ferry transportation? I just don’t understand the seeming lack of urgency.
