https://t.co/8dE6dMHKkM According to a report by Nikkei Asia, Indonesia's daily Covid-19 cases have exceeded 40,000 for two straight days. "More alarming is that despite having more daily infections, Indonesia's population of 270 million population is just a fifth of India's.
Indonesia now has around 132 cases per million people, compared with India 26 as of Sunday," the report quoted ourworldindata.org.
Indonesia's health minister said that bed occupancy rates for Covid-19 patients in 12 provinces have exceeded 70% -- half of them on Java and the rest on other major Indonesian islands.
In the nation's capital, Jakarta, the occupancy rate is close to 90% despite the recent conversion of some facilities into hospitals just for the