Indonesian President Joko Widodo waves at a crowd during his visit to a mass vaccination for the Covid-19 in this file picture taken at Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia,on June 26, 2021. - AP
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): When Indonesian President Joko Widodo spoke with influential business groups on June 30 to discuss imposing a full-scale lockdown as Covid-19 cases spiked, he was met with widespread resistance.
Earlier in the day, senior ministers including Indonesia’s top health official visited the presidential palace in Jakarta with a clear message: the caseload - and death toll - would spike dramatically if the government didn’t immediately impose sweeping measures.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)The last time Aris Suharyanto saw his wife was through a hospital window. He never got to meet their newborn baby.
When Suharyanto s pregnant wife Rina Ismawati and two of their three children fell
ill last month, he initially thought it was a common cold. But with Covid-19 cases rising in Indonesia, he took them to get tested.
The whole family tested positive for Covid-19, including Suharyanto and 43-year-old Ismawati was admitted to hospital, where
she lay in bed, occasionally sending Suharyanto messages through WhatsApp. She told me that her condition was getting worse, Suharyanto said. She couldn t breathe.