Indonesia beefs up health funds with hospitals in critical condition


JAKARTA, July 6 (Reuters): Indonesia’s government on Monday agreed to boost its coronavirus healthcare budget and introduce telemedicine services to non-critical patients, in an effort to reduce pressure on a health system choked by days of record COVID-19 cases.

Indonesia is battling one of Asia’s worst coronavirus epidemics, fueled by the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India.

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