Almost three years after officials announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Indonesia, the country's leader said Friday they are lifting all coronavirus-related restrictions nationwide.
The emergency status was then replaced by the four-level PPKM system, which Widodo announced would be abandoned immediately.
The figure is 10.2 percentage points higher than the 87.8% found in the previous survey from December 2021. The country plans to conduct a third survey next month. He said the Health Ministry’s upcoming serology survey would be used as the basis for future mitigation policies.
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