We Must Not Lower Our Guard

An interview with a spokesperson for the national Covid-19 vaccination program, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, about the drastic decrease of the positivity rate of Covid-19 in Indonesia. How does that happen?

Mahardika Satria Hadi

September 20, 2021

FOR the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Indonesia last week recorded the lowest Covid positive cases with the positive rate on Monday, September 13, dipping to 2.13 percent. It was a drastic drop given that two months before, it was still 30 percent—four times the threshold of 5 percent set by the World Health Organization (WHO). Indonesia has also broken double records for the world’s highest daily cases and deaths around

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