AS the syringe needle pierced the skin between his fingers on Friday noon, May 8, Juanda Septiana squeezed his eyes shut. From the vein of the 32-year-old man, the healthworker from the Primaya Hospital in Tangerang, Banten, took a blood sample. It took less than a minute to get the sample needed for a rapid test to detect coronavirus.

Juanda participated in the rapid testing because Varley Indonesia, the valve repair company where he works, was