VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

Indonesian government’s spokesman for COVID-19 handling, Achmad Yurianto, during the daily press briefing on COVID-19,  announced on Wednesday that 10 Indonesian cities and districts had enacted the Large-Scale Social Distancing (PSBB) protocols to contain the coronavirus transmission. As stated by Antara News Agency on Wednesday, Jakarta is the first area to have adopted such measure, followed by Bogor City, Bogor District, Depok City, Bekasi City, Bekasi District, Tangerang City, Tangerang District, and South Tangerang City, which are all neighboring the capital, as well as Pekanbaru City. The government urged people to abide by the PSBB guidelines, including limiting their social activities in public and maintaining a distance of two meters between one another. Indonesia reported a total of 5,136 confirmed positive cases for coronavirus infection after testing through the real-time PCR method on 11,165 patients under surveillance (PDP) until April 15. (ANTARA)