{"id":14413,"date":"2020-02-14T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/indonesia-coronavirus-academic-harvard-marc-lipsitch"},"modified":"2020-02-14T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:45:08","slug":"academic-stands-by-research-querying-indonesias-claim-to-be-coronavirus-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14413","title":{"rendered":"Academic stands by research querying Indonesia&#8217;s claim to be coronavirus-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor Marc Lipsitch says world\u2019s fourth most populous country may have missed cases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/14\/coronavirus-latest-updates-wuhan-hubei-china-deaths-cruise-ship-sydney-cases-covid19-live-news\">Coronavirus &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Harvard academic has defended research suggesting a possible underreporting of coronavirus cases in Indonesia, following fierce criticism from the health minister in the world\u2019s fourth most populous country, which insists it has no cases.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Marc Lipsitch analysed air traffic out of the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak in China and suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.04.20020495v2\">in a report last week<\/a> that Indonesia might have missed cases. On Tuesday the Indonesian health minister Terawan Agus Putranto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/its-insulting-indonesia-criticizes-us-study-concerns-over-no-coronavirus-cases.html\">called the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/its-insulting-indonesia-criticizes-us-study-concerns-over-no-coronavirus-cases.html\">report \u201cinsulting\u201d<\/a> and said the country had proper testing equipment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/indonesia-coronavirus-academic-harvard-marc-lipsitch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor Marc Lipsitch says world\u2019s fourth most populous country may have missed casesCoronavirus &#8211; latest updatesA Harvard academic has defended research suggesting a possible underreporting of coronavirus cases in Indonesia, following fierce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,566,156,914,512,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-health","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}