Delta Variant Takes Horrendous Toll On Indonesia |Indonesia News NOW |Indonesia Coronavirus update

Delta Variant Takes Horrendous Toll On Indonesia |Indonesia News NOW |Indonesia Coronavirus update

The delta variant is driving new waves of infection right across asia including here in china but few places are as bad off as indonesia 50 000 new cases every day a mortality rate greater than any country in the world and in recent weeks hundreds of children have been dying from coven there are a lot of challenges in indonesia a low vaccination rate not enough hospital beds and now even the cemeteries are filling up.

Too day and night they dig deep and very fast a grim ritual that plays out with painful regularity from above the grid of fresh graves on the outskirts of jakarta is a chilling glimpse at the horrendous toll covet is taking in indonesia the spread of the delta variant is so indiscriminate now that indonesia has become asia's new covet epicenter and the demand for funerals is soaring coffins arrive about 10 every hour shrink-wrapped with plastic to protect. 

The people handling them it's a place where grieving families are rarely alone it's not difficult to get a grave here says andreas hutapea who lost his mother i actually believe and don't believe in coveting says but what can i do indonesia is battling a covet catastrophe that has pushed the health care system to the point of near collapse hospitals are so overstretched and overrun.

They've set up beds for coveted patients outside in parking lots oxygen in such critically short supply that most families buy their own if they can find it.

Inside hospitals medical staff are vaccinated and wear protective gear but it doesn't help the fatigue that comes with losing so many people. when the patient comes in a severe condition put death in one hour and two or two hours he died you will transfer it to the mold and then the new patient will come and put in the same way just one after another guys come and go even with the crisis only a fraction of indonesia's population has been vaccinated. Just over 7 percent of 208 million eligible people the government has been criticized for its slow rollout of

vaccines but religious social media influencers have also been spreading anti-vaccine messages across the internet there's something else at play most of indonesia's supply has been coming from china the government ordered 125 million doses from synovat lately.

There are questions about how effective synovax vaccine is after reports some indonesian healthcare workers who were vaccinated with it got infected with covid and some died the big concern that indonesia's crisis could unleash a new covid variant before enough people are vaccinated for now there's a steady stream of ambulances pulling up to identical rows of plots both fresh and filled of the five sprawling sites like this for jakarta's coveted dead already four of them are full on vaccines and in particular the chinese vaccines experts say there's a lot to consider the delta variant is that much more infectious and there is no vaccine that's 100 effective so booster shots are part of the bigger plan in most countries in asia but right now most countries are a long way off from having enough people.