kiwibird
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...virus-first-hong-kong-and-singapore-now-virus [h=1]Coronavirus: first Hong Kong and Singapore, now ‘virus-free’ Indonesia hit by panic buying[/h]
As of Friday, neither the Indonesian government nor the World Health Organisation had confirmed a single case of the coronavirus or Covid-19, the pneumonia-like disease it causes, in the country despite it being encircled by infected neighbours.
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“The purpose of our study is to look at whether the detected cases are really representative of the total number of cases,” he told The Jakarta Post last week.
“So, to do that we examined the statistical relationship between the number of travellers to a country to the number of cases detected. There was an international average of 14 travellers per day associated with one detection of a case during the whole period we studied.
“By that standard, Indonesia would have been expected to have five cases, approximately, but it had zero during that period.”
In response, Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto described the study as an “insult” to Indonesia.
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- The country hasn’t officially confirmed a single case of the deadly new coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands and claimed nearly 1,400 lives
- Yet shoppers in the archipelago nation of 260 million have still been sent into a panic buying frenzy. The only question is why?
As of Friday, neither the Indonesian government nor the World Health Organisation had confirmed a single case of the coronavirus or Covid-19, the pneumonia-like disease it causes, in the country despite it being encircled by infected neighbours.
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“The purpose of our study is to look at whether the detected cases are really representative of the total number of cases,” he told The Jakarta Post last week.
“So, to do that we examined the statistical relationship between the number of travellers to a country to the number of cases detected. There was an international average of 14 travellers per day associated with one detection of a case during the whole period we studied.
“By that standard, Indonesia would have been expected to have five cases, approximately, but it had zero during that period.”
In response, Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto described the study as an “insult” to Indonesia.
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