Jakarta s Sudirman area, which usually jammed with heavy traffic, goes empty following a mass self-isolation by Jakartans to prevent the spread of the Covid-19. - Jakarta Post/Asian News Network JAKARTA, Jan 23 (Jakarta Post/ANN): For the first time in years, Jakarta is not on the list of the most congested cities around the globe as a recent report mentions that the city shows improvements in untangling the traffic jams.
The 2020 TomTom Traffic Index, an annual report published by Dutch location technology company TomTom, ranks the Indonesian capital the 37th-most-congested city in the world.
The city ranked 10th in the 2019 report. The index shows that the average congestion level in Jakarta was 36 per cent in 2020, down from 53 per cent in the previous year.
JAKARTA, Jan 23 (Jakarta Post/ANN-Kyodo News): The World Health Organisation has announced that it has signed a purchase agreement for up to 40 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as part of its initiative to provide global equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines.
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A medical professional at a community health centre (Puskesmas) in Tapos, Depok, West Java, administers a vaccine during a Covid-19 vaccination simulation. - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network JAKARTA, Jan 10 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Alumni Menteng 64 (AM64), a group of Kolese Kanisius Catholic high school alumni, publicly declared its support for the government’s mass vaccination program in Jakarta.
The group said it was ready to help the government in reaching out to the public and raising public awareness of the importance of taking part in the vaccination drive.
“We are ready to be the government’s partner in conducting public campaigns for vaccination,” AM64 chairman Irlan Suud said.
Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers hold signs urging residents to wear masks at the Merdeka Field in Medan, North Sumatra on June 28. - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network JAKARTA, Dec 19 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Medan administration in North Sumatra will proceed with Christmas and New Year celebrations while urging residents to avoid crowds despite a prohibition against crowd-pulling events from the provincial administration to curb soaring Covid-19 cases.
Medan administration official Renward Parapat, representing the city s acting mayor Akhyar Nasution in a cross-sectoral meeting on the year-end holidays recently, said the administration would help ensure that Christmas and New Year celebrations in the city would run smoothly and safely.
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