Jakarta, Sept. 14 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reminded his ranks to act promptly in lowering inter-regional disparity in terms of the capacity of COVID-19 tests conducted.

"With regard to testing, I have told you that inter-regional disparity in the COVID-19 testing capacity should be minimized immediately," the head of state noted in his introduction at a limited meeting of the Committee on the Handling of COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery in Jakarta, Monday.

The head of state reminded that a situation should not arise wherein the number of COVID-19 tests conducted in some provinces is too high, while low numbers are still clocked in other provinces.

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