Fourteen hours to collect a corpse in Jakarta as Covid toll mounts

Municipality workers carry the coffin of a Covid-19 victim in Jakarta on June 21, 2021. - Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters): It took almost 14 hours to collect a Covid-19 corpse in Jakarta this week, police said, as the Indonesian capital scrambles to deal with a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.

Police in the port area of Tanjung Priok said they responded on Monday (June 21) to a call about a Covid-19 corpse, wrapped in a white shroud, left on the doorstep of a North Jakarta home.