(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Indonesia will continue to relax entry prevention and control requirements
China News Agency, Jakarta, April 5 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) Indonesia's Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs Airlanga announced at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on the 5th that as the new crown epidemic continues to ease, the country will continue to relax the prevention and control requirements for entry personnel.
Except for those whose body temperature is higher than 37.5 degrees Celsius, entry personnel will no longer need to undergo nucleic acid testing.
This is the latest relaxation of the entry prevention and control requirements by the Indonesian government following the implementation of the quarantine-free policy for those entering the country who have completed two or more doses of the new crown vaccine last month.
Airlanga, who is also the vice chairman of Indonesia's National New Crown Epidemic Prevention and Economic Recovery Committee, said that immigrants still need to enter the country with a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours before departure. self-funded centralized isolation.
Airlanga said Indonesia will also increase the number of countries and regions to which the visa-on-arrival policy applies.
At present, the country has opened the entry visa on arrival policy to 48 countries and regions, including China.
The visa-free entry policy for ASEAN countries will also be reinstated.
According to Airlanga, compared with the peak in late February this year, the current number of newly confirmed cases of new crown in Indonesia has dropped by 97%, and the number of daily deaths has also dropped by 85%.
The third wave of the outbreak that began in mid-January, characterized by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, is continuing to ease.
At the peak in late February, the country had an increase of nearly 65,000 daily confirmed cases and more than 400 daily deaths.
Indonesian officials announced that afternoon that there were 2,282 new confirmed cases in the country in the past 24 hours, with a total of 6,023,924 confirmed cases; 72 new deaths and a total of 155,421 deaths.
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