Indonesia to widen coronavirus curbs to 15 locations
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JAKARTA: Indonesia will impose emergency restrictions on islands beyond Java and Bali, the epicentre of its current coronavirus wave, a minister said Friday, to try to slow the deadly spread of the Delta variant across the world's largest archipelago.
The measures will be applied to 15 locations, including 13 cities, in Kalimantan and the islands of Sumatra, Papua and Lombok and come a week tight containment measures were imposed on Bali and on densely populated Java. "The government is pushing several regions to impose emergency restrictions," chief economic minister, Airlangga Hartarto told a news conference.More Related News