MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Aug 13): A vehicle with a flashing siren and "Makassar COVID Hunter" written on the side pulls up to a ship docked at a jetty in the Indonesian port city of Makassar, and masked COVID-19 patients carrying bags board the boat. This ship, called the KM Umsini, used to ply a route ferrying up to 2,000 passengers between Indonesia's island cities. Now, it has been turned into an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms, amid the spread of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant.
A vehicle with a flashing siren and "Makassar COVID Hunter" written on the side pulls up to a ship docked at a jetty in the Indonesian port city of Makassar, and masked COVID-19 patients carrying bags
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Former mayor Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto is expected to return to the mayorship of Makassar, South Sulawesi, after a preliminary count showed him leading in Wednesday’s election.
A quick count by 10 verified survey institutions found that Ramdhan and his running mate Fatmawati Rusdi had secured 41.3 percent of sampled votes. They were competing against three other candidate pairs Munafri Arifuddin and Abdul Rahman Bando who gained 34.7 percent of the sampled vote, Syamsu Rizal and Fadly Ananda with 19 percent and Irman Yasin Limpo and Andi Zunnun Nurdin Halid with 4.7 percent.
Munafri, who was unseated by blank protest ballots in the 2018 mayoral election in Makassar, acknowledged the results and congratulated the winning pair.