JAKARTA (REUTERS) - Indonesia announced its biggest daily increase in novel coronavirus cases on Monday (April 6) and a medical association said 24 doctors had now died after contracting the virus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Indonesia announced its biggest daily increase in novel coronavirus cases on Monday and a medical association said 24 doctors had now died after contracting the virus.
"The trend of is heading for the sky," said Halik Malik, a spokesman for the Indonesian Doctors Association which confirmed the doctors' deaths from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. "The death of medical workers is not just a number, but an alarm for the country to fix their health system in an emergency situation," a coalition of the groups said in a statement on Saturday .
President Joko Widodo told a cabinet meeting on Monday that personal protective equipment had been distributed across Indonesia, though he said regional officials must monitor the arrival of the equipment in hospitals.
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