President Widodo promised in April 10,000 tests would be performed each day, but the goal is yet to be reached. FMTNews Indonesia Covid19
Medical workers take blood samples during a rapid test for the new coronavirus at a cafe in Surabaya.
The country, the world’s fourth most populous, has the highest coronavirus death toll in East Asia outside China, and one of the lowest global testing rates. “We can’t even get the results after two weeks,” Meneldi Rasmin, a consulting doctor at Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta, told Reuters. President Widodo promised in April that 10,000 tests would be performed each day, but the goal is yet to be reached, with testing rates on average hovering at less than half that figure.
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