“Not just the public, but we, too, want this pandemic to pass quickly. This situation will never be resolved if there is no full cooperation from the community as the front guard," IDI mitigation team deputy head Ari Kusuma Januarto said in a statement on Thursday.

He revealed that 136 doctors in the country have died of COVID-19 after four doctors succumbed to the respiratory disease this week.

“There are nine doctors who died of the disease during the first two weeks of October.” The deceased doctors include 71 general practitioners, 63 specialists and two resident physicians from 18 provinces and 66 cities and regencies, he said. 

East Java has recorded the highest COVID-19 death toll among doctors at 32, followed by North Sumatra at 23, Jakarta at 19, West Java at 12 and Central Java at 9. 

The remaining doctors died in South Sulawesi, Bali, South Sumatra, South Kalimantan, Aceh, Riau, East Kalimantan, the Riau Islands, Yogyakarta, West Nusa Tenggara, North Sulawesi, Banten and West Papua. 

Ari added that the death rate of Indonesian medical workers had become more alarming. 

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