Holiday Testing Blues

Minister Luhut Pandjaitan is encouraging the use of antigen tests, which is seen as being more affordable and faster compared to the PCR tests. The antigen tests price is much higher than the base cost of the test kits.

Devy Ernis

January 4, 2021

SASMITA’S plan to return to Jakarta on Wednesday night, December 30, 2020, fell apart. After reserving a flight at 8:15pm Central Indonesian Time, Sasmita and her child could not take antigen tests at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, because the daily supply had already been used up. She had to reschedule her flight. “I was supposed to go home tonight because my child has some work to attend to tomorrow,” she said w

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