Hospitals overwhelmed in Indonesia as Covid-19 cases surge


Workers wearing protective masks unload Moderna vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) from an international cooperation between Indonesia and the United States through Covax facility multilateral, at cargo terminal of Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia, July 11, 2021.- Reuters

JAKARTA, July 12 (Xinhua): Rochimawati, a journalist in Jakarta, has contacted 15 hospitals in the Indonesian capital and West Java province to treat her 70-year-old brother who is infected with Covid-19, but has yet to get results.

All beds in the hospitals have been fully occupied as the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has been soaring in recent weeks. Several hospitals she directly visited also refused her brother and asked her to wait in long queues.

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