Overview

With the number of infected and dead still exponentially increasing on a daily basis, the Coronavirus Disease 2019, also known officially as COVID-19, has now been designated a global pandemic and has, to date, affected at least 198 countries across the world. In Indonesia specifically, the virus has spread at an alarming rate with a confirmed 1,528 infected and 136 dead at the time of writing.[1] This is particularly worrying as President Joko Widodo only announced the country’s first confirmed COVID-19 case on 2 March 2020.[2] While these figures are still a long way from the total number of global infections, experts predict that the number of infections in Indonesia could rise to over 8,000 cases by mid-April 2020.[3]