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The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out has reached Southeast Asia.
Covid-19 patients in a tent outside Dr. Sardjito General Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday. Credit.Ulet Ifansasti for The New York Times
July 17, 2021, 7:24 p.m. ET
BEKASI, Indonesia By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give them. Others see hospitals as hopeless, even dangerous, and take their chances at home.
Fira Abdurachman, Richard C Paddock and Muktita Suhartono Published: 18 Jul 2021 09:15 AM BdST Updated: 18 Jul 2021 09:15 AM BdST A healthcare worker in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) treats a patient inside a temporary tent erected outside the emergency ward for accommodating the lack of beds at a government-run hospital amid the surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, July 15, 2021. REUTERS
By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give them. Others see hospitals as hopeless, even dangerous, and take their chances at home.
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Dying alone in Indonesia s grim battle with Covid-19
By Valdya Baraputri
media captionIndonesia is battling an oxygen shortage amid a Covid surge
A firefighter hauling the dead from their homes, a lack of access to oxygen and a community banding together during a time of crisis. These are scenes that have emerged from Indonesia, a country currently seeing its worst Covid outbreak so far.
With more than 2.7 million infections so far - this week alone has seen record-breaking daily case numbers surpassing 50,000 - it has become Asia s new Covid epicentre.
As the new highly transmissible Delta variant continues to ravage the country, Indonesia appears to be facing a worsening crisis.