People queue up to get vaccinated during a mass drive at a stadium in Jakarta yesterday.
The figure brings the country’s tally for the pandemic to more than 2.1 million coronavirus cases with 57,138 deaths. Indonesia’s Covid-19 case rates have soared in recent weeks after millions travelled at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in May, and as authorities identified the presence of highly infectious newer virus strains.
Hospitals in the hard-hit capital Jakarta as well as West and Central Java have been flooded with patients, including those infected with the highly transmissible Delta variant, first identified in India.
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