Micro-restrictions bring marked decline in COVID-19 cases
11th March 2021
The Jakarta provincial administration is enforcing a micro-scale public activity restriction (PPKM-Mikro) policy to reduce COVID-19 infection rate. ANTARA FOTO/M Risyal Hidayat/wsj.
After struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic over the last one year, Indonesia finally managed to bring down the number of daily infections to 5,633 cases on March 11, 2021, a significant decline compared to 14,518 cases recorded on January 30, 2021.
The country’s total COVID-19 tally touched 1,398,578 cases as of March 11 this year, with the death toll recorded at 37,932 and total recoveries at 1,216,433 since the government announced the first confirmed cases on March 2, 2020.