Overview

Since December 2019, the world has been sliding gradually into a state of turmoil as a new type of malignant virus, officially named COVID-19 has spread from its generally believed origin in the Wuhan area of mainland China[1] to more than 110 other countries at the time of writing, infecting more than 168,000 people in the process and killing at least 6,610.[2] Indonesia is also one of the countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, which has to date infected some 172 people here.[3]