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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.
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has asked the central government to take over the COVID-19 response in Greater Jakarta -- which comprises Jakarta and its neighboring cities -- as the capital is running out of hospital beds as a result of the overwhelming number of patients from the nearby cities over which Jakarta has no jurisdiction.
In New York, hospitals must administer vaccines within a week of receiving them or face a fine and a reduction in future supplies, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, hours before announcing the state's first known case of a new, more infectious coronavirus variant originally detected in Britain.
The double-burial policy has provided a glimpse into the state of the outbreak in Jakarta, where there have been renewed calls to reimpose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) amid soaring cases, deaths and hospital occupancy rates.
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