Indonesia has recorded more than 2000 cases of coronavirus in a day for the first time and infection rates are rising rapidly
in May he believed an extra 3000 people in his city had died from the virus in March and April alone – the city's official death toll at the time was 414 people – citing a sharp rise in burials in his city.
Health workers walk out of a mobile laboratory before analysing samples collected during mass coronavirus tests in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday.Achmad Yurianto, the Indonesian Health Ministry's Disease Control and Prevention Directorate Secretary, said at his daily briefing on Thursday that West Java province had recorded the highest number of cases with 962 new infections. A large cluster of cases was found at an army training school in that province.
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