FILE PHOTO: Officers screen citizenship documents at a check-point during large-scale social restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Surabaya, East Java Province, Indonesia, April 28, 2020 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Didik Suhartono/ via REUTERS
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hospitals in Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya have been overwhelmed by a surge of new coronavirus cases, forcing them to turn patients away, the Indonesian Medical Association said on Thursday.
At least two city hospitals designated to treat the disease in East Java province have been inundated with patients amid fears the virus could spread rapidly beyond its epicentre in the capital Jakarta to elsewhere in the country of 270 million.
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