New Covid-19 cases surge in Indonesia as officials fear the Delta variant can overwhelm hospitals
On social media, people shared pictures and videos showing patients being treated outside the hospitals in tents and ICU wards short on beds. Despite a continuous increase in the number of people getting vaccinated, the Delta variant, first identified in India, has become a major concern for many countries including the member states of European Union.
The virus surge has piled pressure on a fragile healthcare system in Indonesia, with hospitals in some cities nearing full capacity, while hundreds of healthcare workers have tested positive for the respiratory disease and at least 10 who were fully vaccinated have died.said that at least 31 doctors have lost their lives in the past two months to Covid-19 while 24 of them died just this month, raising concern about the efficacy of China’s Sinovac vaccine that the country has largely relied on.
"How long this pandemic is going to be around comes down to all of us," Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a streamed briefing on Friday. In the capital Jakarta, the isolation bed occupancy rate hit 90 percent on Wednesday, while the ICU rate was at 86 percent, according to Governor Anies Baswedan.The surge of deaths and patients with Covid-19 is devastating in Indonesia! Thousands of new cases per day!
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