By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) - COVID-19 is many times more prevalent in Indonesia than shown by official figures in the world s fourth most populous country, authors of two new studies told Reuters. The country of 270 million has recorded 1.83 million positive cases, but epidemiologists have long believed the true scale of the spread has been obscured by a lack of testing and contact tracing. The results of Indonesia s first major seroprevalence studies - which test for antibodies - were revealed exclusively to Reuters. One nationwide study between December and January suggested 15% of Indonesians had already contracted COVID-19 - when official figures at the end of January had recorded infections among only around 0.4% of people. Even now, Indonesia s total positive infections are only around 0.7% of the population. The results of the survey were not unexpected given under reporting, said Pandu Riono, a University of Indonesia epidemiologist who worked on the study carried out with
JAKARTA COVID-19 is many times more prevalent in Indonesia than shown by official figures in the world’s fourth most populous country, authors of two new…
(Refiles to make lede para read . foreign affairs chief .) JAKARTA (Reuters) -The European Union will impose a new round of sanctions on Myanmar s military junta and its economic interests in the coming days, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell told Reuters on Thursday. In an interview in Jakarta after meetings with Southeast Asian diplomats, Borrell said the fresh sanctions from the EU would be the third batch introduced since the military ousted Myanmar s democratically-elected government on Feb. 1. There is a third row of sanctions in preparation that will be approved (in) the coming days (targeting) personnel of the military junta and also the entity that represents the economic interests of the military, he said. Since the coup, EU sanctions have frozen assets or applied travel bans on 21 military and civilian members of Myanmar s junta. European citizens and companies are also forbidden from making funds available to those sanctioned. The bloc s last round of sanctions in Apri
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