Indonesian Red Cross Volunteers do the spraying of COVID-19 disinfection to some of the schools in Padang City, West Sumatra Province on October 4, 2021, to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 disease to thousands of students offline teaching and learning activities and learning that have been set by the Indonesian government, even though Indonesia is currently on the red list of countries.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Retno in the 76th High-Level Week session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), on September 25, 2021, invoke some of the countries in the world to consider Indonesia's status in order to switch from the red list status, as did France which removes Indonesia from the red list of countries.