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Indonesia votes as experts warn of risk of coronavirus spreading
Indonesians have headed to the polls to vote in regional elections as health experts warn of the risk of new coronavirus clusters emerging across the country.
Key points:
- Voting in the regional elections had been pushed back once because of the pandemic
- The Government ignored calls from health experts and Islamic groups for a second postponement
- An epidemiologist said the elections meant “it’s very likely that new clusters will emerge”
More than 100 million people were eligible to vote on Wednesday with nearly 300,000 polling stations set up in 24 districts and 37 cities.
The vote in the world’s third-biggest democracy comes as Indonesia struggles to contain South-East Asia’s worst COVID-19 outbreak with more than 586,000 infections and…
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