Government considering Bali lockdown on March 25 th 2020

Government considering Bali lockdown to prevent the spread of the Corona virus, but President Joko Widodo stated during a press conference at Soekarno Hatta Airport on Friday March 3 th 2020 that he is still not thinking in that direction.

The government spokesman  Achmad Yurianto  joked about the news circulation that in Bali there would be a lockdown so that the spread of the corona virus could be prevented. He heard that Bali would prevent a lockdown on March 25, 2020. Apparently, on March25 that’s Nyepi Day when all activities on the island including flights will be stopped for a day. He said Bali would be locked down and  hopes that no one will go there on that special day.

Officials also conceded the island’s hospitals were not ready for a major outbreak and that it needed its own laboratory facilities capable of quickly diagnosing swab tests, rather than relying on slow results from Jakarta.

The Indonesian Doctors Association on Thursday urged the government to allow more laboratories outside Jakarta to test for COVID-19, and for the country to begin using rapid-testing techniques such as those conducted in Singapore, which can detect the virus within three hours.

Source : https://nasional.kompas.com/