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Municipality workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry a coffin from an ambulance to the burial area provided by the government for victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 24, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
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JAKARTA, June 28 (Reuters) - Indonesia s health minister is leading a push for stricter controls as coronavirus cases surge to unprecedented levels, according to sources familiar with government discussions. Coronavirus infections in Indonesia have tripled in the past three weeks, overwhelming hospitals in the capital Jakarta and on the heavily populated island of Java.
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Updated at 6:08 p.m. ET on 2021-01-26
Indonesia surpassed the 1 million mark in the official number of coronavirus cases detected nationwide, the health ministry announced Tuesday, as hospitals in Southeast Asia’s most populous country struggled amid a surge of patients in COVID-19 hotspots.
Indonesia recorded 13,094 new cases within the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,012,350 since the first case was detected last March, according to data from the Ministry of Health. An additional 336 deaths overnight brought the death toll to 28,468.
“These figures should force us to reflect. It means that the people must work together with the government to overcome this pandemic,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a press conference, noting that more than 600 health workers had died of the coronavirus disease.