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INDONESIA has reported 367 new Covid-19 cases and 23 fatalities, bringing the country’s total infections to 12,438 with 895 deaths.
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CORONAVIRUS | The total number of Covid-19 infections in Indonesia has risen to 7,775 cases, with 11 more deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
Indonesian government spokesperson on Covid-19, Achmad Yurianto, said the death toll now stands at 647 people since the first fatality was reported on March 11.
“For the period between noon yesterday and noon today, another 357 new cases were reported, while there are 18,283 patients under surveillance for Covid-19,” he said in his daily media briefing on the pandemic streamed on YouTube.
Jakarta Province recorded the highest overall fatalities with 301 cases, followed by West Java (74 cases), East Java (60) and Central Java (53), while the remaining cases were in the other Indonesian provinces. – Bernama
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Indonesia announced its biggest daily increase in novel coronavirus cases on Monday and a medical association said 24 doctors had now died after contracting the virus.
The rise in the death toll among doctors, which has doubled since last week, followed criticism of a lack of protective equipment in Indonesia.
The 218 new coronavirus cases took the number overall in Indonesia to 2,491. The 209 confirmed deaths among people who have contracted the virus is the highest number of fatalities in Asia outside China.
“The trend of (doctors dying) is heading for the sky,” said Halik Malik, a spokesman for the Indonesian Doctors Association which confirmed the doctors’ deaths from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
“The risk of medical workers getting infected is always there… but the point is medical workers need to be protected in any way,” said Malik.
A number of rights groups, including Amnesty International, have expressed concern at the high proportion of deaths among medical workers.
“The death of medical workers is not just a number, but an alarm for the country to fix their health system in an emergency situation,” a coalition of the groups said in a statement on Saturday.
Health experts have pointed to the high percentage of deaths among the number of confirmed cases as a sign the outbreak is much larger than official data suggests in the world’s fourth most-populous nation.
Cases to surpass 100,000 by July
Indonesia’s own intelligence agency last week revealed that it expected coronavirus cases to peak in the next three months, surpassing 100,000 cases by July.
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2 April 2020
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