JAKARTA: The governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Friday (March 20) declared a state of emergency for the next two weeks in the city, the centre of Indonesia’s Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
Governor Anies Baswedan told a news conference that public entertainment would be stopped from Monday and public transportation limited.Earlier on Friday, the Red Cross International had announced that Indonesia is likely to have a far higher number of coronavirus cases than it has reported due to low levels of testing and needs to consider tougher measures like lockdowns, the head of the association told Reuters.
But there was a strong prospect the cases were still being underestimated, said Jusuf Kalla, a former two-term vice president of Indonesia and chairman of the country's Red Cross. Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said her baseline scenario was for GDP growth at above 4%, while the scenario of no growth assumed the coronavirus outbreak lasting three to six months, global trade slumping and Indonesia going into lockdown. Indonesia's GDP grew 5.02% last year.
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