With schools shut, Indonesian bus drivers ferry Covid-19 patients instead


A driver wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) drives a school bus transporting patients infected with Covid-19 from a local district health facility to emergency hospital Athlete's Village, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Jakarta on Friday (Sept 25, 2020.) - Reuters

JAKARTA, Sept 25 (Reuters): For the past decade, Yusuf Iswahyu has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus to and from their schools.

But with many shut due to Covid-19, the 29-year-old has now signed up alongside other drivers to take patients infected with the virus to an emergency hospital in Jakarta.

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