Nearly 1,300 test positive for COVID-19 in Indonesian military academy

A total of 1,262 people at a military academy in Indonesia have tested positive for the coronavirus, a local health official said, adding most of them were asymptomatic cases.

The Indonesian Army Officer Candidate School in West Java, the country's most populated province, has now been quarantined.

At least 17 people with mild symptoms are still in the hospital and 1,245 others who haven't shown any symptoms are under self-quarantine, said the official.

The outbreak was first detected when two cadets went to a medical facility after complaining of fever and back pain. It is not clear how the cadets were infected.

Indonesia is the hardest-hit country in Southeast Asia with more than 75,000 known cases of COVID-19 and over 3,600 deaths.