CORONAVIRUS | Now she is a number on a growing list, one of 26 Indonesian doctors killed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
| When Indonesian doctor Ratih Purwarini was buried at dusk in a Jakarta cemetery, only her son Firos saw her plastic-wrapped coffin used for coronavirus victims lowered into the grave.
Now she is a number on a growing list, one of 26 Indonesian doctors killed by Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. The deaths of 26 doctors, and nine nurses, battling the pandemic in Indonesia, a sprawling developing nation of 260 million people, has fanned anxiety about a healthcare system ill-prepared to tackle it.
But Widodo has resisted strict lockdowns, instead urging Indonesians to adopt social distancing measures and stay home. The government needs to act fast, especially outside the capital, said Adib Khumaidi, the deputy chief of the Indonesian doctors' association.
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