Jakarta: Indonesia has criticised a US study questioning why the world’s fourth most populous nation had not yet recorded a case of Covid-19 (novel coronavirus), calling the findings an insult and insisting that it was on high alert.
The virus has killed more than 1,100 people in China and spread to dozens of countries, but the South-East Asian nation of more than 260 million has not reported a confirmed case since the outbreak.
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