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Foreign aid starts arriving to help Indonesia fight COVID surge 11 hours ago
COVID-19 vaccine and medical equipment assistance from United Arab Emirates arrived in Indonesia on early Friday (July 17, 2021). ANTARA/HO-UAE Embassy in Jakarta/am. With Indonesia recording an exponential increase in COVID-19 cases, several countries have stepped in to provide vaccines and medical equipment to help the nation fight the latest spike in infections.
Fifteen days since the imposition of public movement restrictions, Indonesia s COVID-19 cases have continued to explode, with the country adding 51,952 daily cases on Saturday, bringing the tally to 2,832,755.
With 1,092 people succumbing to the virus in a single day, the death toll climbed to 72,489. Meanwhile, the number of daily recoveries reached 27,903, taking the total tally so far to 2,232,394.
Indonesia becomes new COVID epicentre as infections and deaths skyrocket
Following months of skyrocketing daily cases and deaths, Indonesia overtook all other countries this week to become the new global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, the official number of infections rose above 50,000 for the first time to 54,517, along with almost a thousand deaths. On the same day, India recorded fewer than 42,000 daily cases, far below the height of more than 400,000 infections in May. Brazil’s daily tally dropped to below 53,000 on Thursday, as Indonesia continued to climb to 56,757 cases.
UNICEF aid workers in Indonesia [Credit: UNICEF]
The situation in Indonesia is starkly similar to that of India in April–May, when it was devastated by the highly-infectious Delta variant. In that period, India reported roughly 29 cases per 100,000 people, which Indonesia is swiftly approaching with 20 per 100,000, according to official figures. Indonesia’s vaccination rate is e
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A woman has her nasal swab samples collected during mass testing for Covid-19 in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta
By Amy Sood, CNN
Nearly half of Jakarta’s residents may have contracted Covid-19, according to a health survey more than 12 times the number of cases officially recorded in the Indonesian capital at the time when the research was carried out.
The survey, published July 10, tested for coronavirus antibodies in the blood of about 5,000 people across the city from March 15-31. The results showed 44.5% of those tested had antibodies, indicating they had been infected with Covid-19.