Funeral employees lower the plastic-wrapped coffin of a Covid-19 victim with an excavator in the background at Rorotan Cemetery in Cilincing, North Jakarta, on July 23,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
BY: THE JAKARTA WORLD
AUGUST 04, 2021
Jakarta. Indonesia reached another unfortunate milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic with total death toll exceeding the 100,000 mark on Wednesday, more than a month after constraints returned to stricken provinces throughout Java and Bali.
The news came 2 days after the federal government extended the lockdown by another week, mentioning success in suppressing brand-new infections of the extremely contagious Delta variant.
Nevertheless, the variety of Covid-19 deaths has been growing at a rate never ever seen prior to mid-July as more people dying from the virus while self-isolating in your home.
The day-to-day death toll has been topping 1,000 given that July 16, consisting of 1,747 deaths in the past 24 hours, federal government figures reveal.
The illness has now eliminated 100,636 people, mostly in the densely populated island of Java.
Indonesia is now the 12 th country worldwide to report more than 100,000 Covid deaths, according to global data compilation by US-based Johns Hopkins University.
There have been 35,867 cases in the 24- hour duration, bringing the nation’s total to 3,532,567
The total variety of active cases stands at 524,011
July has become the deadliest period of the Indonesian outbreak, with 27,409 deaths throughout the month, representing a 348 percent boost from the monthly death toll in June.
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