Is tropical Asia relatively immune to Covid-19?
(WorldNews Indonesia)

JAKARTA - When Maritime Affairs and Investment Coordinating Minister Luhut Panjaitan recently raised the much-debated issue of whether a tropical climate may be Indonesia´s best defense against the fast-spreading coronavirus, critics of the government´s response predictably rolled their eyes. The problem for Panjaitan, Widodo´s senior adviser on almost everything, is that all attention is on the lack of testing, widely believed to be the reason why the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 is far lower than what independent modeling suggests it should be. Claims that the climate may be a mitigating factor leads irrevocably to the suspicion that President Joko Widodo´s government is trying to...