Even as cases continue to spike, people often ignore measures to stop the pandemic. FMTNews
A health worker takes a blood sample at a coronavirus rapid test station in Bekasi last week.
Even as cases of the coronavirus have continued to spike in the Southeast Asian nation, now reaching nearly 23,000 infections and 1,391 deaths, people have often been seen ignoring measures to stop the spread of the pandemic. The presidential task force on fighting Covid-19 has said the country needs to move to a “new normal” of wearing masks, social distancing and good hand hygiene to combat the disease.
Officers will be deployed on streets and at malls and other strategic locations in the provinces of Jakarta, West Java, Gorontalo and West Sumatra, in a joint operation between the Indonesian military, police and local government, Hadi said.
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