Jakarta Parks and Forestry Agency officials bury the bodies of several people who had died of coronavirus at Tegal Alur Public Cemetery, West Jakarta, on April 7. (JP/Donny Fernando)
JAKARTA, May 4 (The Jakarta Post/ANN) -The actual number of COVID-19 deaths in Indonesia may be substantially higher than officially reported as several regions have recorded hundreds of fatalities among patients under surveillance (PDPs), who are suspected of having contracted the highly contagious coronavirus.
Patients under surveillance refer to people with COVID-19 symptoms who have not been confirmed as having the disease, meaning that they are waiting either to be tested or for their test results to come back.
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