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View all search resultsIndonesia imports oxygen as COVID-19 explosion batters hospitals
Emergency oxygen supplies for virus patients were being flown in from neighboring Singapore, while the government said Southeast Asia's worst-hit nation could see cases soar to more than 50,000 a day.
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ndonesia warned Tuesday it was bracing for a punishing surge in COVID-19 cases as its daily toll soared to a record 728 deaths and hospitals crumble under the weight of the country's deadliest wave yet.
Emergency oxygen supplies for virus patients were being flown in from neighboring Singapore, while the government said Southeast Asia's worst-hit nation could see cases soar to more than 50,000 a day.
Hospitals in the hard-hit capital Jakarta were topping 90 percent occupancy and more than a dozen facilities in Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya shut out new patients because they could no longer handle the huge influx.
A Surabaya hospital spokeswoman described jammed ICUs and exhausted doctors, some infected with COVID-19.
"The hospital no longer has rooms for patients who need ventilators. The ICU rooms are also full," said the woman who asked not to be identified.
"We're overwhelmed. Many of our health workers have collapsed from exhaustion and some are also infected. We trying to get volunteers to help out."
Nearly 1,000 Indonesian medical workers have died of COVID-19, including more than a dozen who were already fully inoculated, according to the country's medical association.
