Indonesia only confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus on March 2, after weeks of suspicion that the virus was already spreading rapidly.
But late last week, only 1,727 tests had been done, representing one test for every 156,000 people. That's equivalent to about 160 tests in total for the entire Australian population.
The lack of testing means the COVID-19 virus has likely been spreading unchecked for months, during which time health authorities continually dismissed suggestions the virus was in Indonesia.
Indonesian doctors saw a "record" in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per day – 407 more people tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number to 5,923.
According to the Health Ministry of the country, 24 people lost lives in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total number of fatalities stands for 520. At the same time, 59 people recovered (total of 607).
On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a new COVID-19 coronavirus infection a pandemic.
According to the latest WHO data, global coronavirus tally exceeds 2 million, more than 131 thousand died.