JAKARTA, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Eleven provinces in Indonesia have reached the World Health Organization (WHO)'s standard target of 1,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests per week, the Indonesian COVID-19 Task Force said on Wednesday.
Head of the Data and Information Technology of the Indonesian COVID-19 Task Force, Dewi Nur Aisyah, said the 11 provinces were Jakarta, East Kalimantan, Riau, West Papua, West Sumatra, Papua, North Sulawesi, Yogyakarta, Bali, Central Java, and South Kalimantan.
Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta alone has reached 7,100 tests a week or seven times of the WHO standard, Aisyah added.
Aisyah also said 13 provinces have conducted PCR tests of more than 50 percent, while the other 10 regions have done the tests less than 50 percent of the WHO standard.
Indonesia is an archipelagic country with 34 provinces. Enditem
