Coronavirus: WHO urges Indonesia to test more suspected patients amid high death rate, SE Asia


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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The World Health Organization has urged Indonesia to perform more Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on people suspected to have the illness because it has noted a "substantially high" number of deaths among patients under surveillance (PDP) and people under observation (ODP). The WHO acknowledged that Indonesia had improved its testing capacity significantly but said many of the PCR tests had been used on people already known to have Covid-19 - as the old WHO guidelines required. The organisation changed the guidelines more than a month ago. "Indonesia has a substantially high...