Two nurses at Sanglah General Hospital are currently being treated in isolation at the facility after reportedly caring for suspected COVID-19 patients. 

“There are two [nurses] who contracted fever and are coughing, yes.

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Achmad Yurianto, the official spokesperson for COVID-19-related matters in Indonesia, said the central government is not obliged to inform regional governments about the test results of suspected patients ⁠— following what initially seemed like a breakdown in communication yesterday surrounding the country’s first recorded death to the novel coronavirus, who was a patient in Bali.

The increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has evidently not deterred the country’s second-in-command from reportedly joking about the benefits of alternative medicine, amid a global health emergency that the World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared a pandemic.

The 53-year-old woman who died from the novel coronavirus in Indonesia was a British patient being treated at the Sanglah General Hospital in Denpasar, local officials confirmed today.

“Yes, this morning at 2.45am I received information from Sanglah that one patient being observed for COVID-19 passed away.