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View all search resultsA deadly second wave of COVID-19 has taken a devastating toll on the country's doctors, nurses and other health workers, many of who are becoming ill from overwork or demoralized from watching their colleagues fall to the virus.
Amid an increasing number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the capital, a doctors association is calling on Jakartans to stay at home during the Christmas and New Year holidays to prevent a further spike in cases.
It seems more than 106 million Indonesians are urged to prioritize their right to vote over their right to life and health despite appeals to delay the local elections, at least until the coronavirus is more controllable according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards, or when the WHO has pronounced an available vaccine as being safe.
Women's marathon world record-holder Brigid Kosgei from Kenya and Ethiopia's two-time men's winner Andamlak Belihu are among the 49 elite athletes running the 21-kilometer (13.1 mile) race, while thousands of amateurs are taking part virtually.
The coronavirus knows no administrative borders. It has spread to 501 of the country’s 514 regencies and cities, including some remote regencies, prompting doctors to worry that the pandemic might spread further to remote areas and exhaust their already poor health infrastructure.
A coalition of medical associations is planning to file a judicial review and issue a subpoena to Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto over a recently issued ministerial regulation on clinical radiology, which the group has deemed “an abuse of power”.
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