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Indonesia prepared if daily cases top 60,000 - minister
Government assessing duration of mobility curbs
Union says over 10% of manufacturing workers infected
Indonesia approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

July 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia is now fighting a "worst-case scenario" epidemic, a senior minister said on Thursday, adding the government was preparing for a further spike in coronavirus cases as the more virulent Delta variant spreads.

The world's fourth most populous country is struggling to slow COVID-19 transmission even after imposing its toughest mobility curbs yet, while its immunisation rate is low, with just 5.8% of its 270 million people fully vaccinated.

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