COVID-19: Jakarta not ready to face worst-case scenario: Experts
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Shares Home to more than 10 million people, Indonesia’s capital is already the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, but it may have to deal with a sixfold increase in infections that experts say the city administration would not be ready to handle. Drastic measures are deemed necessary to address the escalating health crisis as the number of positive cases nationwide rose past 1,400 with 122 deaths as of Monday. Jakarta accounts for roughly half of these figures with 698 cases and a death toll of 74. In a worst-case scenario, the city may be looking at the possibility of handling up to 8,000 COVID-19-positive cases, Jakarta Military Command chief Maj. Gen. Eko Margiyono...