FILE PHOTO: An Indonesian student receives her first dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a high school, as the cases surge in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to those in India two months ago - hospital corridors jammed with COVID-19 patients and frantic families trying to find oxygen to treat sick loved-ones.
Instead of the makeshift funeral pyres in the streets of New Delhi, the capital of predominantly Muslim Indonesia, Jakarta, has seen truckloads of corpses being transported to newly dug grave sites.
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