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Measles, polio return as Indonesian govt struggles with uneven coverage, incomplete immunisation
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Healthcare workers administering the measles vaccine to elementary school students during the launch of a free health check programme for children, in Jakarta, on Aug 4.
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JAKARTA – The resurgence of once-controlled diseases has exposed a weakness in the Indonesian government’s preventive health policy, experts say, following outbreaks of measles in multiple regions over the past eight months.
Incidences of measles, a highly contagious viral disease that was previously under control until 2021, have totalled nearly 3,500 confirmed cases nationwide since January across at least 42 regions, including Jakarta, Banten and East Java’s Sumenep regency.
