COVID-19; Regional Heads Urged to Postpone Overseas Trips
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15 March 2020 18:22 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has urged regional heads, deputy regional heads, chiefs and members of regional legislative assemblies across Indonesia to postpone their overseas trips to avoid contracting coronavirus or COVID-19 infection.
"It is true (he) calls on all regional heads to postpone their overseas trips," Chief of the Information Center of the Home Affairs Ministry Bahtiar said in a press message text on Sunday.
Tito said that the UN World Health Organization (WHO) had declared COVID-19 global pandemic
If the trips are not very urgent, they should postpone them to avoid being exposed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), he said.
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