The number of Covid-19 cases in the country rose by 12,408 within one day to 3,979,456.
During the past 24 hours, 24,276 recovered patients were discharged from hospitals, raising the total number of recoveries from the pandemic in the country to 3,546,324, the ministry said.
Indonesia is implementing a multi-tiered community activity restriction scheme, known locally as PPKM, aiming to reduce the daily Covid-19 tally. The curbs are set to end on Monday. So far, there is no announcement on whether the curbs will be extended or not. The government is targeting to vaccinate 208.2 million people using vaccines produced by a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
To date, at least 31.60 million people in the country have received two shots of vaccines, and the number of those who have been injected with the first doses reached 57.33 million, the Health Ministry reported.
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