Jakarta: Indonesia expanded the national coronavirus sidewalk Wednesday to fight the deadliest Covid-19 wave, when the victim skyrocketed by warning the government that the worst might not come.
New restrictions will apply to dozens of cities and expand from Sumatra Island in the West to Papua the easternmost as a very contagious Delta variant across the Southeast Asian Islands after beating a solid Javanese.
“The case also rises in other areas and we need to pay attention to the availability of hospitals” there, said Senior Minister Airlangga Hartarto, added: “The government has decided to extend the limitation” until July 20.
The State Hospital was bent under pressure as a wave of sick patients flooded an extraordinary health care system.
This week the government launched the new virus sidewalk in the capital of being hit by Jakarta, throughout Java and on the island of Holiday Bali for reporting Tuesday 31,189 new infections and 728 deaths – seven times a day of daily deaths less than a.
a month ago.
The area affected by the minded restrictions was announced on Wednesday has a much lower number of daily cases than Covid Java’s epicenter, home for more than half of Indonesia of almost 270 million people.
But limited health care services in these areas have been under pressure and explosions in cases can take them to kneel, Hartarto warns.
“Facilities in these areas are limited and overwhelmed,” he said, adding that even more stringent rules can follow if infection continues to increase.
Wider restrictions include forcing the majority of non-essential employees to work from home, and limit stores and hours of restaurants.
Mosques and the majority of Muslim churches are also closed in the highest risky area.