on 11 march when a 53-year-old british citizen in bali died. however, a telkom employee who died on 3 march was found positive on 14 march. classifications cases since 14 july 2020, the ministry of health of the republic of indonesia classifies people involved with covid-19 into four levels: a suspect is a person showing symptoms of respiratory infections, and has stayed within 14 days in any country or any region in indonesia with local transmission and/or has established contact within 14 days with a confirmed or probable case and/or requires treatment at the hospital and has no possible diagnosis of other diseases. a probable case is a person, alive or deceased, who shows or showed obvious signs of covid-19 symptoms and awaiting results of his or her swab test. a confirmed case is a person whose sample produced positive results based on swab or molecular rapid test. a confirmed case may be symptomatic or asymptomatic. due to lower accuracy and higher chance of false positives, a positive rapid or antibody test is not counted into the official number of cases. a close contact is a person who established contact with a probable or confirmed case between 2 days before and 14 days after symptoms show up, or the date of testing for asymptomatic cases. the close contact must quarantine for 14 days. reclassification into suspect may be done should if the person show symptoms. other classifications include: a recovered case is recorded after a confirmed case is discharged from isolation. for an asymptomatic case, it is 10 days after a sample testing; for a symptomatic case, it is after a swab test or 10 days after onset of symptoms, and at least 3 days after no fever or respiratory difficulties. death is recorded after someone who had been confirmed covid-19 positive died. people who were classified into probable case's deaths are not counted in the official tally. location according to the ministry of domestic affairs, a regency or municipality may be classified into three levels depending on the severity of covid-19 cases within the region, according to these parameters: the number of positive cases within 14 days the number of suspected cases within 14 days the number of deaths buried according to covid-19 protocol within 14 days threat of disease contagions to healthcare workers each has a score of 15 points for increasing trends, 20 for stationary trends, and 25 for decreasing trends. the three levels were assigned to a specific region: red zone if the total score reaches below 80 points. large-scale social restrictions may be enforced. yellow zone if the total score reaches 80 to 95 points. green zone if the total score reaches 100 points (all 4 parameters show a decreasing trend). cases confirmed cases jakarta became the first province that confirmed covid-19 cases, while gorontalo was the last to do so. on 6 july 2020, jambi became the last province to report a death, 53 days after the penultimate province east nusa tenggara did. west java and banten had ever reported 16,251 cases and 22,667 recoveries in a day respectively; both are the highest by a single province. central java hold the record for death numbers with 679. all six provinces in java have the highest number of cases compared to other provinces, making it the worst-affected region in the country. suspected cases several travellers who had visited or transited through bali later tested positive for sars-cov-2 shortly after their return to china, japan, new zealand, and singapore. an additional 50 to 70 people were put under surveillance after coming into contact with the first two confirmed covid-19 patients. this number includes those who had visited mitra keluarga hospital in depok, the hospital the two confirmed patients were previously admitted to before being transferred to north jakarta. a 37-year-old man who died in a hospital in semarang suspected of having covid-19 reportedly tested negative, and was instead afflicted by swine flu, probably picked up from recent travels to spain. in west sumatra, two people who returned from abroad died at padang's dr. m. djamil central general hospital. on 13 march, a woman who was being treated as a suspect of covid-19 after returning from umrah died. on 16 march, a 47-year-old man from kuala lumpur, malaysia landed at minangkabau international airport, showing symptoms of covid-19. he was subsequently hospitalized at padang's hospital and died on the same day. responses central government further information: timeline of the covid-19 pandemic in indonesia (2020), timeline of the covid-19 pandemic in indonesia (2021), timeline of the covid-19 pandemic in indonesia (2022), and timeline of the covid-19 pandemic in indonesia (2023) early responses treatment facilities list indonesia banned all flights from and to mainland china starting from 5 february 2020. the government also stopped giving free visa and visa on arrival for chinese nationals. those who live or have stayed in mainland china in the previous 14 days were barred from entering or transiting through indonesia. indonesians were discouraged from travelling to china. starting on 8 march, travel restrictions expanded to include daegu and gyeongsangbuk-do in south korea, lombardy, veneto and emilia-romagna regions of italy, and tehran and qom in iran. visitors with travel history within these countries but outside the aforementioned regions have to provide a valid health certificate during check-in for all transportation into indonesia. despite the restriction on travellers from south korea, indonesia was still allowing flights from the country. the ministry of health ordered the installation of thermal scanners for at least 135 airport gates and port docks, and announced that provisioning over 100 hospitals with isolation rooms (to who-recommended standards) would begin. starting on 4 march, jakarta mrt also began scanning the temperature of passengers entering the stations and denying access to those with symptoms of high fever. other public places such as mall and school also began to scan people at all their entrances. after the first victim died, the indonesian government admitted that they had difficulties in detecting incoming imported cases on airports, doing contact tracing and also location history for each case. the indonesian government announced on 4 march that it planned to turn a site on galang island, previously used as a refugee camp for vietnamese asylum seekers into a 1,000-bed medical facility specially equipped to handle the covid-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases. on 13 march, the government designated 132 treatment facilities across indonesia. on 18 march 227 additional hospitals (109 military hospitals, 53 police hospitals and 65 state-owned enterprises hospitals) were provisioned to cover more patients across the country. the government also established the covid-19 response acceleration task force. doni monardo has been appointed to lead this team. on the same day, minister of home affairs tito karnavian urged all of indonesia's regional leaders to suspend all non-essential travel to foreign country. on 15 march, president widodo called on all indonesians to practice what epidemiologists call social distancing to slow the spread of covid-19 in the country. indonesian tax authorities announced that they would move back the tax reporting deadline to 30 april 2020. on 16 march, the ministry of state-owned enterprises instructed its employees aged 50 and over to work from home. president jokowi also clarified that the decision to implement lockdown on cities or regencies are only to be made after consultation with the central government. as schools were closing in some regions, minister of education nadiem makarim announced the readiness of the ministry of education to assist schools in online learning by providing free teaching platforms. minister of finance sri mulyani also announced a shifting of infrastructure budget of 1 trillion idr into healthcare and pandemic prevention. former 2018 asian games athletes village turned into covid-19 hospital. health workers collect mucosal swab sample a covid-19 test in padang, west sumatra. on 17 march, covid-19 health protocols have been released to public. ministry of foreign affairs also expanded the travel restrictions to temporary abolish visa free entry to indonesia for one month and deny transit or arrival for visitors who have been in iran, italy, vatican city, spain, france, germany, switzerland, and united kingdom within the past 14 days. on 18 march, the government launched covid-19.go.id site, an official source of accurate information on controlling the spread of covid-19 in indonesia. on the same day, the ministry of finance also announced that kemayoran athletes village, a former athlete's housing for the 2018 asian games would be converted to house covid-19 patients who show only mild symptoms after consultation from doctors. the conversion was officially completed on 23 march. on 19 march, bank of indonesia decided to slash the bank rate to 4.5%, in addition to 6 other fiscal policies, in the attempt to shore up the economy amidst the covid-19 crisis. on the same day, the chief of the indonesian national police idham azis published a notice for all policeman to enforce social distancing by dispersing assemblies at public places. on 27 march, the government was mulling over a plan to ban 2020 idul fitri mudik (exodus) to prevent city dwellers from spreading the coronavirus to towns and villages across the archipelago. on 30 march, president widodo refused to impose lockdown on jakarta. bus routes connecting jakarta and other cities and provinces will remain open following the cancellation of a plan to temporarily suspend operations of greater jakarta-based intercity and interprovincial (akap) buses. on 31 march, indonesia announced idr 405 trillion covid-19 budget, anticipates a 5% deficit in a historic move. the government was to allocate idr 75 trillion for healthcare spending, idr 110 trillion for social protection, and idr 70.1 trillion for tax incentives and credit for enterprises. the largest chunk, idr 150 trillion, was to be set aside for economic recovery programs including credit restructuring and financing for small and medium businesses. on 13 april, president jokowi declared covid-19 as a national disaster after it infected 4,557 individuals and caused 399 deaths in indonesia. prof. mahfud md as coordinating ministry for political, legal, and security affairs said the national disaster could not be used as a justification for claiming force majeure and thereby evading obligations under contracts. on 21 april, president jokowi announced his decision to ban the idul fitri mudik (exodus) starting from 24 april to curb the spread of covid-19 ahead of ramadan. to help with this effort, travel by intercity bus travel was banned until 31 may, commercial and charter flights until 1 june, sea transportation until 8 june, and long-distance passenger trains until 15 june. in late april, president jokowi asked the united states for medical equipment, including ventilators via phone call to president donald trump, to which president trump, on 24 april, responded he would provide and also reiterated the intent to strengthen economic cooperation between the two. vaccination efforts covid-19 vaccination in south jakarta. covid-19 vaccine card in indonesia. main article: covid-19 vaccination in indonesia covid-19 vaccination in indonesia was started on 13 january 2021, when president joko widodo was vaccinated at the presidential palace. stimulus policy to reduce the impact of covid-19 pandemic to the national economy, the government released a idr 10.3 trillion stimulus policy to the tourism sector, in the form of ticket price discounts and restaurant tax deductions. the idr 10.3 trillion budget is given to provide discounted airplane ticket prices for 10 tourist destinations, such as batam, denpasar, yogyakarta, labuan bajo, lombok, malang, manado, lake toba (silangit airport), tanjung pandan, and tanjungpinang, which applies from march to may 2020. ticket prices for low-cost airlines are discounted by 50%, medium-service by 48%, and full-service by 45%. specifically for this ticket price discount, the stimulus fund comes from the idr 444.39 billion state budget (apbn) for a discounted value of 30% and 25% of passengers per flight. additionally, there were additional idr 100 billion ticket discounts paid by angkasa pura i and angkasa pura ii and idr 260 billion pt pertamina (persero) paid through jet fuel price discounts, so the total ticket price stimulus was idr 960 billion, so that the ticket price could be discounted by 50%. the stimulus in the form of restaurant taxes was borne by the central government was also provided to the tune of idr 3.3 trillion. thus, there was no restaurant tax in the ten tourist destinations above, but as compensation, the local government were to be 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