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Indonesia has banned an annual homecoming where tens of millions of people travel to see their families for Eid-al-Fitr, fearing the mass exodus could accelerate the spread of coronavirus across the country.
It is not clear how the rule will be enforced, or how many people have already embarked on journeys after losing jobs in the cities they worked in before the virus emerged. Millions of people across Indonesia have been left with no income as a result of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
“Trust us, the worst is yet ahead of us,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Although he did not specify exactly what the worst could look like, the WHO has previously warned of the future spread of the virus throughout Africa.
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