A child adjusts her mother's face mask as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus while waiting for a bus in Banda Aceh on August 22, 2020. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
When Ari Harifin Hendriyawan’s mother tested positive for the coronavirus, their neighbours brought a hammer and nails and boarded up the lane.
From his home in the lush foothills of Indonesia’s West Java, the 23-year-old said the barricade appeared days after he received a negative test result and was at home self-isolating.
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