"The higher the body mass index, the more infected, in this case overweight and obese. People with high blood sugar levels are also more at risk," he said.
Dr Pandu Riono said the survey also showed the pandemic could become endemic — where the disease becomes more or less permanent in a given area. "Communal immunity in Jakarta will be more difficult to achieve because Jakarta is an open city with high intra and interregional mobility," he said. In recent weeks, as the highly transmissible Delta variant of the virus has swept across the country, Indonesia has significantly ramped up the rate of vaccinations.Earlier this month, it reached a target of one million doses a day. Children aged 12-17 are now also eligible for vaccination.
Does the haughty experts, just out from Journo class in ABC know the difference between COVID and SARS_COV2 Just asking because when they report positives as COVID, they imply these individuals present with symptoms indicating viral infection has developed to be a disease.
soooo…. there’s a long-covid future for half of Jakarta then?
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