Tweeting about this Bali life - the minutiae, the mystifying, the maddening, & the marvelous. 🌴
Jun 20, 2020 • 59 tweets • 24 min read
Hullabaloo on Twitter tonight about this group of foreigners who apparently gathered without masks or social distancing to sing, chant & generally commune at a Bali holistic center this week. Unsurprisingly, they've drawn a lot of angry criticism.
This House of Om Instagram post told people to "Invite as many friends & family as you want" to an "Ecstatic Kirtan" with Jermey (sic) & friends on the 18th June - the day Bali logged what was then a one-day record increase of 66 new #COVID19 cases. Prophetic typo?
Apr 16, 2020 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
First it was planeloads of cruise ship crew members arriving back in Indonesia via Bali's Ngurah Rai airport. Now there are four cruise ships bringing them back via Bali's Benoa port over 4 days. First of them, Voyager of The Seas, docked today (16 April). thebalisun.com/first-of-4-cru…
Voyager of the Seas carried 232 crew, of which 117 reside in Bali. The rest are from other regions in Indonesia. All tested negative for #COVID19 via rapid tests, according to the head of Bali's Covid-19 task force, Dewa Made Indra.
537 Indonesian migrant workers arrived at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport today. All were returning from cruise ships in the United States. They're coming in through Bali because the majority are said to be from Bali.
Yesterday (April 9), Bali Governor Wayan Koster revealed that 15 of Bali's confirmed #COVID19 cases were recently returned cruise ship crew members. Most who tested positive had returned from the United States and Italy.
Mar 26, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
#COVID19: About 16,000 Aussies have left Indonesia in the past week & more are expected to leave in coming days, but they represent one of the biggest threats to Australia's efforts to "flatten the curve", according to Queensland virologist @MackayIM.
Dr Mackay said the closure of Australia's borders had potential to flatten the curve "unless we already have widespread community infection". (Australia let 2700 people off the Ruby Princess in Sydney earlier this month releasing of a wave of 133 cased in the community.)
Mar 20, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
China has announced an imported #COVID19 case from Indonesia, a 35yo Chinese national who had developed symptoms in the archipelago last week before being diagnosed on his return to Shaanxi province. Not been reported in China where in Indonesia he stayed. bit.ly/39YhFRs
The Shaanxi Health Commission announced on its website on Tuesday (Mar 17) that Zhang was the province’s first imported case. He reportedly developed a cough and fever on March 10 during his stay in Indonesia.
Mar 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
A glimpse under the covers. Indonesia's Health Ministry still updating Twitter on yesterday's corona details. Here it reveals WHERE some of the 134 confirmed @COVID19 cases are - West Java Province (1), Banten Province (1) Central Java Province (1) & DKI Jakarta (14). 117 to go
The Indonesian Health Ministry answered the WHERE question for the 17 newest cases announced yesterday (Mar 16) & hopefully that step in the direction of transparency will continue but it should say where all 134 cases have been detected. thejakartapost.com/news/2020/03/1…
Feb 24, 2020 • 27 tweets • 27 min read
Indonesia's @kompascom reports Bali was the Indonesian destination visited by a Japanese tourist who fell ill on his return to Tokyo. Report quotes a health official saying man "wasn't infected by #COVID19", he was infected by "SARS-Coronavirus Type 2". sains.kompas.com/read/2020/02/2…@kompascom According to posts I've seen from Australian virologist @MackayIM, it's correct to say someone is infected by the virus that has since 11 Feb been officially called “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”. The disease they get from the virus is #COVID19.
