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Lack of Testing Hamstrings Covid-19 Fight in Asia

Impossible to trust data in most SEA countries

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Philip Bowring
Apr 01, 2020
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Indonesia has become the latest country to engage in xenophobia, closing its borders to foreigners as though they are the threat rather than its own health system inadequacies. 

It is easy for governments to look to border closures when their own Covid-19 data is so obviously far behind reality, which is the case in almost every country in Asia and espec…

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