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Indonesia Reports Two More COVID-19 Confirmed Cases

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Secretary of the Indonesian Health Ministry's Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control, Achmad Yurianto, who is also official spokesperson for COVID-19 handling, giving statements to the press at the Presidential Offices in Jakarta, Friday (6/3/2020). Secretary of the Indonesian Health Ministry's Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control, Achmad Yurianto, who is also official spokesperson for COVID-19 handling, giving statements to the press at the Presidential Offices in Jakarta, Friday (6/3/2020). ANTARA

Jakarta - The Indonesian government's spokesperson for COVID-19 handling measures, Achmad Yurianto, confirmed that two more Indonesians were infected with the coronavirus.

"Two more people have confirmed positive for COVID-19, whom we refer to as case-3 and case-4," Yurianto, concurrently secretary of the Indonesian Health Ministry's Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control, stated.

The Indonesian government had earlier reported two confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 infection in Indonesia. The first and second patients, later referred to as case-1 and case-2, include a 64-year-old female and 31-year-old female from Depok, West Java, a city located on the outskirts of the capital city of Jakarta.

They are undergoing treatment in isolation rooms in North Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Diseases. (ANTARA)

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