Indonesia records its highest increase in COVID cases –– and numbers are likely to rise again before they fall

  • Written by: Dicky Budiman, MD, Epidemiologist and PhD Candidate on Global Health Security, Griffith University

Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in COVID-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been predicting.

The country recorded its largest single-day increase in new cases on July 13, with more than 47,000 infections.



And this is likely to be a huge undercount because too few people are getting tested.

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