Covid-19 testing insufficient, says Indonesia health minister
2.5% Proportion of its 270 million population who have been tested. "A pandemic that is out of control means there are a lot of infections in the community that cannot be detected early." He suggested that Indonesia's new daily cases cannot serve as "a valid reference" due to minimal testing. Nearly one year after Covid-19 swept the country, Indonesia has tested only 6.7 million people, or around 2.5 per cent, of its nearly 270 million population. The WHO recommends that each country conducts 1,000 tests per million people. This means Indonesia should be testing at least around 270,000 people...