UK, Norway and Denmark banned from travelling to Indonesia


FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab sample to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab sample to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
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JAKARTA (Bywire News) - On Monday, an Indonesian senior minister revealed that the UK, Norway and Denmark have all been added to the list of countries restricted from entering Indonesia to stop COVID-19 from entering its borders. Hong Kong on the other hand has been removed from the list.

Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, the senior minister, said the move comes as a precautionary measure after the first case of the Omicron variant was detected in Indonesia last week.

(Reporting by Fransiska Nangoy; Writing by Kate Lamb; Editing by John Geddie, and Klaudia Fior)

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