Bali Governor Wayan Koster denied that recent spikes in COVID-19 cases in the province resulted from loosened restrictions which began last Thursday, noting instead that the province’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is going well.

Local authorities in Bali took a 39-year-old American woman to Sanglah General Hospital yesterday afternoon after she allegedly tried to jump from the second floor of the immigration office.

The woman, identified by her initials JA, was initially apprehended by officers from the Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) in Badung regency after local residents grew concerned about her behavior.

Sara Connor, an Australian woman who was sentenced to four-years’ imprisonment in 2017 over the brutal death of a local policeman, has been released from Kerobokan prison this morning and is due for deportation with the next available flight to her home country.

Starla Wehrli and Rio welcomed their first child on June 4, a day that marked the beginning of their new journey as a family of three. 

But Indonesia’s newly updated immigration policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic might force their little family ⁠— and others ⁠— to separate in less than a month.

Dozens of market vendors from Pasar Kidul in Bangli regency tested positive for the coronavirus, making them the latest cluster of COVID-19 cases from traditional markets in Bali.

The market is now temporarily closed until Thursday, during which time it will be sprayed with disinfectant and its operations reorganized, according to Bangli regent I Made Gianyar.