Coronavirus Indonesia: Jakarta to reimpose lockdown as cases, deaths spiral

Indonesia’s capital Jakarta will reinstate large-scale social restrictions beginning on Monday due to a resurgence in coronavirus infections, its governor said on Wednesday.After first imposing the restrictions in early April, Jakarta gradually eased the measures starting in June as it managed to flatten the curve of new coronavirus cases. More recently, however, the emergence of new cases has seen a rapid increase.Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan told a virtual press conference, “We have no…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3100936/coronavirus-indonesia-jakarta-reimpose-lockdown-cases