Hoping for Endemic Status after the Idul Fitri
The government relaxes mask use and Covid-19 testing regulations for travelers. The Covid-19 pandemic is shifting to endemic status.
Raymundus Rikang
May 22, 2022
SHORTLY after President Joko Widodo announced that the public may forego mask use in open areas on Tuesday, May 17, a lot of activity ensued in a WhatsApp group of epidemiologists and the health minister. The public health experts there had pro and contra stances regarding this announcement made amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Windhu Purnomo, an epidemiologist from Airlangga University in Surabaya, East Java, who is a member of that group, cal
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