Indonesia Aims to Keep Active Cases under 200,000 in Q4
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5 August 2021 22:31 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that the government is targeting to lower the number of active Covid-19 cases. The government aims to keep active cases under 200,000 by the fourth quarter of this year.
"The government is targeting to lower active cases to less than 200,000. We hope that by the fourth quarter, the positivity rate will decrease, active cases will also decline. We also hope we can spur the economy back towards a positive direction," Airlangga said in a press conference Thursday, August 5th.
The minister said that in order to reduce cases significantly, community discipline is a must. The government, he said, is also pushing to accelerate vaccine rollouts to reach 73 million of inoculated doses.
At the downstream sectors, Indonesian government is asked to keep increasing hospitals capacity, medicines availability, and health workers recourses.
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