JAKARTA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government said there are more than 1,000 clusters of the COVID-19 infections across the country, the government's spokesperson for the COVID-19 Mitigation, Reisa Broto Asmoro said.
The figure was obtained from a tracking process by the government though its regional health offices and health community centers on all the confirmed COVID-19 patients, Asmoro told a press conference at the presidential office here on Friday.
The COVID-19 clusters could be found everywhere including families, offices and crowds, she said, calling on people to take care of themselves for possible novel coronavirus infections especially during the weekend when they go out for leisure.
Up to now, the government has tested 2.8 million specimens taken from about 1.6 million people. "The best treatment has been given to the COVID-19 patients, in the hope it would increase the recovery rate," she said. Enditem
