Due to the increasing number of new corona infections, Indonesia is reacting with stricter measures on the densely populated main island of Java and the neighboring island of Bali.
Jakarta - The restrictions will initially apply from July 3rd to 20th, announced President Joko Widodo in a televised address on Thursday.
Details should be announced later in the day.
According to a document that was available to the German Press Agency, all schools and shopping centers, among other things, have to close.
Eating in restaurants is again prohibited, only takeaway or delivery food is allowed.
Companies are instructed to send 75 percent of the workforce to work from home.
A few days ago the Red Cross warned of a collapse of the health system in the island nation.
The country has been reporting record levels of over 20,000 new infections for days.
Jan Gelfand, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Indonesia, spoke of an impending Covid-19 catastrophe ".
The local doctors' association had recently stated that the health system on Java was completely overloaded and that patients had to be turned away in the meantime.
In the fourth most populous country on earth with 270 million inhabitants, almost 2.2 million corona cases have been confirmed so far. More than 58,000 people have died in connection with Covid-19. The important tourism industry on popular islands like Bali has been on the ground since March 2020. (dpa)
