Beside those donations, Indonesia plans to buy 36,000 tons of oxygen and 10,000 concentrators devices that generate oxygen from Singapore, Pandjaitan said.
He said he is in touch with China and other potential oxygen sources. The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates also have offered help.
Overall, Indonesia has reported more than 2.4 million infections and 64,631 fatalities from covid-19. Those figures are believed to be a vast undercount due to low testing and poor tracing measures. Indonesia reported 1,040 deaths on Wednesday and nearly 39,000 confirmed cases on Thursday and Friday.
Hospitals are swamped, with growing numbers of the ill dying in isolation at home or while waiting to receive emergency care.
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