Indonesia to lift Covid-19 emergency status within two weeks

Jakarta, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) Following the recent removal of the country’s mask mandates, the last of its Covid-19 health protocols, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said he will end the state’s Covid-19 health emergency status within two weeks.

June 14, 2023
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“We discussed this in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and decided to enter the phase of treating Covid-19 as an endemic,” Jokowi said on Wednesday, on the sidelines of an event in Jakarta.

He said the lifting of the national emergency status would be officially “announced in the next one or two weeks”.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said after the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that he had “just updated the President on the current pandemic situation in Indonesia, other Group of 20 countries, ASEAN countries, as well as alternative policies we can take once the national emergency status is lifted”, kompas.id reported.

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