Indonesia to tighten curbs to prevent holiday spike in Covid-19 cases,


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JAKARTA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) With the threat of a Covid-19 third wave looming ahead of the year-end festivities, the government is gearing up to take another crack at preventing a holiday-fuelled spike in cases by imposing the second-most stringent level of the four-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM) in all provinces. Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy, who announced the plan on Wednesday, said that applying level 3 restrictions nationwide would help to better regulate public mobility. The details will be published next week in the form of a Home Ministry instruction, which will be effective starting from...