Earlier this month, six-year-old Azzam made national headlines when it was reported that he had been the only new student enrolled in Sriwedari 197 state elementary school in Surakarta, Central Java, in the new school year.
Indonesia’s government is under mounting pressure to close schools temporarily as the number of Covid-19 infections rises significantly in the country, driven primarily by the highly transmissible but less severe Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Daily new cases rose from 2,927 on January 24 to 17,895 on February 2, the highest tally in more than five months.
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Indonesia's government is under mounting pressure to close schools temporarily as the number of Covid-19 infections rises significantly in the country, driven primarily by the highly transmissible but less severe Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Ilmia Rahayu's days have been filled with worries since the Indonesian government decided to restart face-to-face learning in schools in the first week of January, amid a surge in Covid-19 cases triggered by the Omicron variant.