A health worker takes care of a COVID-19 patient in Jakarta (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)The recommendation came just days after Indonesian PresidentJoko Widodo flagged the easing of restrictions, Reuters reported.
Indonesia has become one of the epicentres of the globalpandemic in recent weeks, with positive COVID-19 cases leaping five-fold in thepast five weeks. This week, daily deaths hit record highs over 1,300, among thehighest tolls in the world.
In its latest situation report, WHO said the strictimplementation of public health and social restrictions were crucial and calledfor additional "urgent action" to address sharp rises in infectionsin 13 of Indonesia's 34 provinces.
Under Indonesia's partial lockdown, social restrictions suchas work-from-home and closed malls are limited to the islands of Java and Baliand small pockets in other parts of the country. Large sectors of the economydeemed critical or essential are exempt from most, or some, of the lockdownmeasures.
Indonesia's daily positivity rate, the proportion of peopletested who are infected, has averaged 30 percent over the past week even ascases numbers have fallen. A level above 20 percent meant "very high"transmissibility, WHO said.
Aceh is the only locality in Indonesia's provinces recordinga positivity rate under 20 percent, at 19 percent, it added./.
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