What is Covid-19?
COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Indonesia on 2 March 2020, when a dance instructor and her mother were infected from a Japanese national. By 9 April, the pandemic had spread to all 34 provinces in the country after Gorontalo confirmed its first case, with Jakarta, East Java, and West Java being the worst-hit. As of 11 May, Indonesia has recorded 14,265 cases, the second-highest in Southeast Asia, only behind Singapore. In terms of death numbers, Indonesia ranks fifth in Asia with 991 deaths. Its fatality rate is also one of the highest in the world at around 7 percent. Researchers suggest the main reason for the high rate is probably a lack of testing, resulting in many cases going undetected. A review of data, however, indicated that the number of deaths may be much higher than what has been reported as those who died with acute coronavirus symptoms but had not been confirmed or tested were not counted in the official death figure. Sourc