Indonesia confirms more medical officers reported dead as virus cases surge due to holiday travels

This aerial picture shows a residential area and commercial buildings in Jakarta on Sunday, 27 June 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA, June 25 (AFP): Over a dozen fully vaccinated doctors have died of Covid-19 in Indonesia, a medical association has confirmed, as the South-East Asian country battles a rash of severe cases in inoculated medical workers and highly infectious new virus strains.

Infections have surged in the nation of 270 million people in the past week, passing two million cases on Monday as hospital occupancy rates soared to over 75 percent in Jakarta and other hard-hit areas.