JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia will provide free telemedicine services to coronavirus patients with mild symptoms, its health minister said on Monday (July 5), in an effort to reduce pressure on a healthcare sector inundated by record numbers of Covid-19 cases.
With records most days last week and deaths surpassing 500 on several of those, Indonesia is battling one of Asia's worst Covid-19 epidemics, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India.
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