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Indonesian President warns about the risk of prolonged COVID-19 epidemic

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged the government to inform the public that it is impossible to completely eradicate COVID-19 despite improvements have been recorded in pandemic control in recent times.
Indonesian President warns about the risk of prolonged COVID-19 epidemic ảnh 1A student in Aceh, Indonesia receives COVID-19 vaccine jab (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged the government to inform the public that it is impossible to completely eradicate COVID-19despite improvements have been recorded in pandemic control in recent times.

Speaking on the YouTube channel of the Presidential Secretariat onSeptember 7, President Jokowi called on all Indonesians to recognise that COVID-19 will not disappear.

The coronavirus can only be controlled but not completely removed from Indonesia or the world. The Delta variant is still present inIndonesia and if people are careless, the number of COVID-19 infections maysurge again, he continued.

In recent weeks, COVID-19 cases in Indonesia have been on a downwardtrend. According to the COVID-19 Task Force, the Southeast Asian countryrecorded only 49,753 COVID-19 cases and 3,370 related deaths between August 31and September 5, down from the respective figures of 71,101 and 4,239 in six daysfrom August 25 to 30./.
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