This article was written based on the pandemic situation in April 2020
Covid-19 Management in the world
Coronavirus is a group of viruses that can cause disease in animals or humans. Several types of corona viruses are known to cause respiratory infections in humans ranging from cold coughs to more serious ones such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). A new type of Coronavirus has been found to cause Covid-19. This is a new virus and disease that were not known before the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. On 31 December 2019, WHO was alerted to a cluster of pneumonia patients in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. One week later, on 7 January 2020, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a novel (new) coronavirus as the cause of the pneumonia. The proposed interim name of the virus is 2019nCoV. Since the first cases were reported, WHO and its partners have been working with Chinese authorities and global experts to learn more about the virus, including how it is transmitted, the populations most at risk, the spectrum of clinical disease, and the most effective ways to detect, interrupt, and contain human-to-human transmission.
WHO as a health organization in the world has draft the documents in the February 2020 as a guide for every country to act against this coronavirus which is well known also as Covid-19. The WHO expect that every country has the same strategic plan and response to the Pandemic. The WHO wants every country act correctly and can giving the best effort to overcome this global pandemic. So, there will be no late or wrong action to the pandemic.
How the Asia's regional organization response to Covid-19 Outbreak
A regional response to the coronavirus disease outbreak has come to the ASEAN as Southeast Asia regional organization to prevent the wider transmission of Covid-19, which has reached eight out of 10 ASEAN member states. ASEAN as one of the regional organizations in Asia, has put some action and efforts to response against this Covid-19. First, each country's foreign ministers met their Chinese counterpart on February 20, committing to ASEAN-China joint emergency responses to Covid-19. ASEAN health sector officials have convened several video conferences, including with their Chinese, Japanese and South Korean counterparts under the ASEAN Plus Three framework, to exchange information and best practices on epidemic prevention and control, diagnosis and treatment. Another teleconference involving ASEAN senior officials in the sectors of foreign affairs, transport, finance, information, defenses and immigration is scheduled for today, in a bid to muster a cross-sectoral coordinated approach among ASEAN member states.
However, the response by each ASEAN member country at the initial stage of the outbreak was different and uneven. Singapore and Vietnam quickly took action by extensive contact tracing, clear and constant communication with the public, and locally developed test kits for early detection to the Covid-19. There is almost no same action in ASEAN, but one thing positive, there is an action which most of the ASEAN countries applied, except Cambodia, have imposed restrictions on travel to various levels. Cambodia remains the only Southeast Asian country that does not maintain travel restrictions with China, which has drawn strong criticism in ASEAN. This is a problem because, given the wide and relatively free movement of people in the region, every missing link damage ASEAN's ability to increase collective defenses against the spread of disease.
Why China and Indonesia chosen in this article?
      There is some reason why China and Indonesia are chosen to be compared in this paper. This may be a little bit unfair and imbalance because these two countries development and condition is quite different. But the main point of choosing China as Comparison to Indonesia is because these two countries has the huge number of the population. Which considered they will face the similar challenges in overcome this Covid-19. It also to show how the China government response to the Covid-19 in order to make sure all of the huge citizens there are free from the Covid-19 virus. In the geographical term, both China and Indonesia have the large amount of land spread in the country. It is interesting to analyze how the country management through every island, province, city or small district in the country. Then we can have the real fact how the Covid-19 affect the country with the large amount of population.
Main Part: How is China's react to this outbreak in the beginning compare to Indonesia?
