{"id":64068,"date":"2020-03-02T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64068"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:57:02","slug":"indonesia-records-first-local-covid-19-cases-involving-two-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64068","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia Records First Local Covid-19 Cases, Involving Two Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 id=\"EditorialView_tit\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By Mohd Shukri Ishak<br>JAKARTA, March 2 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesian President Joko Widodo Monday said two locals become the first COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country of more than 270 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patients &#8211; a 64-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter &#8211; are from Depok, a city near Jakarta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Indonesians were reported to have met with a Japanese national who had recently been in the republic before departing to Malaysia and was later confirmed positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Japanese citizen who apparently infected with the virus had come to the country and had contact with two individuals &#8211; a -64-year-old mother and her 31-year-old daughter,\u201d said Jokowi in a live telecast from the Presidential Palace here Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Indonesian Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto said the patients were currently being treated at Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital in Northern Jakarta.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported previously a number of Indonesians had contracted COVID-19 virus, however, all of them were outside of the country &#8211; one in Singapore and nine cases onboard of Diamond Princess cruise ship in Chiba, Japan.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mohd Shukri IshakJAKARTA, March 2 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesian President Joko Widodo Monday said two locals become the first COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country of more than 270 million people. The patients &#8211; a 64-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter &#8211; are from Depok, a city near Jakarta. The two Indonesians were reported to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":63767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}