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> Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand

Indonesia is only testing at the rate of 116 tests per million people. You only find what you measure. When the rate of testing is that low you can't make any claims about the true coronavirus death rate in Indonesia:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

And it hasn't helped that the Indonesian government has been deliberately withholding coronavirus information from the country:

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/03/13/we-dont-want-...



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