ASEANEWS HEADLINES: COVID-19, NEW VARIANTS & VACCINES: JAKARTA, Indonesia- Indonesia Enters One Year of Covid-19 with Two New Variant Cases
A health worker administers a vaccine from a vial during a Covid-19 vaccination campaign for religious leaders at Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Feb. 25, 2021. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro) / BY :NATASIA CHRISTY WAHYUNI & JAYANTY NADA SHOFA /MARCH 02, 2021
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Jakarta. The Health Ministry recently announced the new coronavirus B117 variant — which was first detected in the UK — has entered Indonesia, one year since the country confirmed its first two Covid-19 cases.
Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono said the government had discovered two B117 variant cases on Monday night.
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“Last year, we detected case 1 and 2 of Covid-19. Last night, exactly a year [after the first two cases], we detected the B117 UK mutation in Indonesia. This is fresh from the oven. We have found two cases last night,” Dante said on Tuesday, as quoted from Jakarta Globe’s sister publication Beritasatu.
“From the 462 [samples] we have checked across the archipelago in the past few months, we have detected two [mutation] cases last night.”
The deputy minister, however, did not go into further detail regarding the new variant.
CNN Indonesia reported the government had earlier analyzed the aforementioned 462 samples using the whole genome sequencing (WGS). The provinces which submitted the most samples were Jakarta, West Java, East Java, Banten, and Yogyakarta.
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Here is the GLOBAL status as of Monday, 7am, March 1, 2021
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The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 218 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.
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COVID-19 infection crosses 114.6 million globally as deaths cross 2.54 million
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Deaths: 2,542,461:
Recovered : 90,186,644.
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