1,800 Social Affairs Ministry civil servants get COVID-19 vaccination 9th March 2021
Several civil servants at the Social Affairs Ministry are vaccinated against COVID-19 here on Tuesday. (ANTARA/HO.Kemensos). Jakarta (ANTARA) - A total of 1,800 civil servants (ASN) at the Social Affairs Ministry were administered the COVID-19 vaccination in a bid to support accelerated response to the pandemic. Vaccination for civil servants at the Social Affairs Ministry is like a gift for us, who are struggling to handle the pandemic through the distribution of social assistance. We thank the Health Ministry, Head of the COVID-19 Handling Tasikmalaya Force at the ministry, Sonny W., remarked after monitoring the vaccination activities here on Tuesday.
The Jakarta provincial government has extended the micro-scale public activity restrictions (PPKM Mikro) till March 22, 2021 to prevent any emergence of .
Death of senior doctor rings alarm bells in pandemic-struck Indonesia reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Dr Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, admitted himself to his local hospital in East Java late Tuesday afternoon.
In just over 24 hours, as his fellow doctors phoned hospital after hospital in search of a ventilator in Surabaya – Indonesia’s second-largest city and a few hours’ drive away – the doctor and his wife, Sri Martini, would both be dead.
The death of Dr Sardjono and his wife from COVID-19 has raised alarm bells in the world’s fourth-most populated nation, where the pandemic has steadily gone from bad to worse and is now putting significant strain on the country’s poorly equipped health system.