Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, announced yesterday that, fully vaccinated international visitors are no longer required to undergo quarantine, amid a decrease in COVID-19 cases in the country.

International travellers are now only required to show negative PCR test results upon arrival, he added.

“If the PCR test result is negative, they can come out of the airport immediately, and carry out their activities,” the president said in a statement.

The country’s Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, told parliament earlier that, the number of imported COVID-19 cases is currently relatively much lower than that of domestically transmitted cases, making the mandatory quarantine for arriving visitors no longer necessary.

The number of COVID-19 infections is declining in Indonesia. Health authorities yesterday confirmed 6,376 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total tally to 5.98 million, with the death toll rising by 159 to 154,221.

As the Indonesian government is accelerating its national vaccination programmes, to curb the spread of the virus, over 195.22 million people in the country have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, while over 156.13 million have taken their second doses.–

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK