

Īs of 24 September 2021, Indonesia has reported 4,204,116 cases, the highest in Southeast Asia, ahead of the Philippines. On 13 July 2020, the recoveries exceeded active cases for the first time. At most 48,832 recoveries and 2,069 fatalities were ever recorded within a span of 24 hours. The largest increase of new cases in a single day occurred on 15 July 2021, when 56,757 cases were reported. Jakarta, West Java, and Central Java are the worst-hit provinces, together accounting almost half of the national total cases. īy 9 April 2020, the pandemic had spread to all 34 provinces in the country. Both were infected from a Japanese national. It was confirmed to have spread to Indonesia on 2 March 2020, after a dance instructor and her mother tested positive for the virus.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2). ‡ Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.
