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Indonesia’s real virus death toll may be 3 times reported figure: Epidemiologist – Jakarta Post
“Indonesia should refer to the WHO [World Health Organization] definition of a COVID-19 death and should implement it in the country for our own sake,” said Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Griffith University Australia.
The actual COVID-19 death toll in Indonesia could be three times the reported figure, which reached 10,105 on Thursday.
Dicky Budiman, an epidemiologist at Griffith University Australia, said that Indonesia had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths of any ASEAN country and that that the nation placed third in COVID-19 deaths among Asian countries.
According to Dicky, the death toll is a valid indicator of COVID-19 management in certain countries and regions.
But he said Indonesia’s actual d…
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