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View all search resultsThe government has begun offering fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the country's 4 million health workers to provide additional protection against Omicron subvariants that have been responsible for driving up daily caseloads over the past couple of weeks.
Health workers in Jakarta, the country's current epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, are starting to feel the brunt of the Omicron-fueled surge of infections, with hospitalizations climbing and daily new infections surpassing the peak of last year's Delta wave.
Due to a staff shortage, many frontliners in Australia still have to work even if they have asymptomatic COVID-19 or have been in close contact with someone who contracted the virus. Indonesian health workers there share their stories.
The sheer number of COVID-19 deaths has made it easy to forget that behind the statistics lie stories lived by individuals who could and should have continued on. In “People, not numbers”, The Jakarta Post remembers their lives through the eyes of those who knew them best.
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