It was late in the afternoon on Oct 17 when Sarinah (not her real name) heard a knock on the back door of the home she shares with her mother and younger sister in a village in Indonesia 's ultraconservative Aceh province. Home alone and still new to the neighbourhood, the 19-year-old wondered who would be visiting. When she opened.
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July 08, 2021
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Ketut Nomer, a 59-year-old patient suffering from coronavirus disease (Covid-19), rests as his 28-year-old son Gede Zico sits taking care of him, at a temporary tent outside the emergency ward of a government hospital in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 25, 2021.
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JAKARTA, July 7 - Indonesia reported on Wednesday (July 8) more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time, as a surge in infections overwhelmed parts of the hospital system in densely populated Java and with portable oxygen supplies running out in six towns.
The spike in fatalities comes amid concerns about the new outbreak spreading across the archipelago, prompting authorities to monitor daily cases and bed occupancy in 43 areas deemed red zones and urge strict implementation of mobility curbs.