Good news for tourists! Bali likely to welcome international travellers from October

Amid a constant decline in the country`s number of new Covid-19 cases, Indonesia may open up Bali for tourists from countries where COVID is in check

Bali: The Indonesian government will reopen its resort island of Bali for international visitors from October amid a constant decline in the country`s number of new Covid-19 cases, a Minister said in Bali.

In a statement on Friday (September 17), Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said that the country has just emerged from the peak of the second wave of the pandemic triggered by the Delta variant from July to August and has managed to reduce its positivity rate to less than 5 per cent, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Covid-19 Task Force recorded the highest daily increase of cases at 56,757 in July 15, but the day-to-day rise dropped sharply to 3,835 on September 17. "If the number of cases continues to drop like this, we are confident to reopen Bali," Panjaitan told a virtual press conference.