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A combination picture shows gravediggers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) bury a victim of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at the Muslim burial area provided by the government for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) victims in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 28, 2021, and the same area as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases surges, on July 7, 2021.
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JAKARTA, July 8 - A morbid grid of graves widens as excavators dig deep, piling up soil to make space for Indonesia s pandemic dead to be laid to rest.
Ambulances, lights flashing, deliver bodies to the Jakarta burial site as trucks carry away dirt beside rows of rectangles carved out of the brown earth.
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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.
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JAKARTA: Indonesia expanded nationwide coronavirus curbs yesterday to battle its deadliest Covid-19 wave yet as the death toll rocketed.
The country reported 34,379 infections and 1,040 deaths - both records - yesterday with fatalities up nearly six-fold from the daily number at the end of May.
The new restrictions would apply to dozens of cities and extend from Sumatra island in the west to easternmost Papua as the highly infectious Delta variant rips across the archipelago after battering Java. Cases are also rising in other regions and we need to pay attention to the availability of hospitals (there), said Senior Minister Airlangga Hartarto, adding that the government has decided to extend curbs until July 20.