Indonesia announced on Friday its first cases of the highly contagious Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 as the country starts to see an uptick in transmission following the Idul Fitri holiday season last month, which saw tens of millions of people traveling across the archipelago.

Health Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Syahril said that the ministry had found one case of the BA.4 subvariant and three cases of the BA.5 subvariant, all linked to an international event in Bali.

"The patients, one Indonesian and three foreigners, had all been fully vaccinated, one patient had even been vaccinated four times," Syahril said in a press conference on Friday.

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by Nina A. Loasana and Dio Suhenda (The Jakarta Post)

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