JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Surabaya mayor Tri Rismaharini knelt down on the ground and broke into tears as she held a meeting with doctors and hospital directors in Surabaya amid the spike of Covid-19 cases in East Java's capital city, which has become Indonesia's epicentre of the outbreak.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Surabaya mayor Tri Rismaharini knelt down on the ground and broke into tears as she held a meeting with doctors and hospital directors in Surabaya amid the spike of Covid-19 cases in East Java's capital city, which has become Indonesia's epicentre of the outbreak.
In the video, which went viral shortly after the meeting, the mayor was seen kneeling down, crying and apologising after a pulmonologist from Dr Soetomo Hospital in Surabaya shared in the meeting that the hospital was overloaded with Covid-19 patients. Ms Risma argued that her office faced hurdles in reaching out to the hospital even when it tried to offer aid, without explaining the details. She also said that her administration had undertaken various efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus.East Java is currently Indonesia's Covid-19 epicentre with a tally of 11,805 confirmed cases as of Monday, surpassing the capital city of Jakarta that has recorded 11,114 cases.
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