Grim milestone for Indonesia as coronavirus cases pass 1m
published :
26 Jan 2021 at 17:52
Municipality workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the coffin of a coronavirus victim during a burial at the area provided by the government for the victims of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as the outbreak continues, in Bogor, Indonesia, on Tuesday. (Reuters photo)
JAKARTA: Indonesia surpassed a million confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a grim milestone for the Southeast Asian nation that has struggled since last March to get its Covid-19 epidemic under control.
The world's fourth-most-populous country has recorded 1,012,350 cases, with the average daily increase running above 11,000 for more than a week, according to official data.