english.jpnn.com, JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that Indonesia needs to be prepared to face a Covid-19 endemic.
"There is no pandemic that continues to become a pandemic. It will definitely turn into an endemic," said Budi, Wednesday (23/3).
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Even so, the minister could not predict when the pandemic would become an endemic.
Budi said that the transition to an endemic was not always structured and systematic.
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"It is very blurry, very gray," he added.
Budi said that the government needed a roadmap to determine transition targets and prepare the community. (mcr9/mcr20/jpnn)
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