BREAKING: Indonesia becomes the second Asian nation to record over 100,000 Covid deaths trib.al/KWDTR7G
Indonesia joins 11 other countries — including Brazil and India — that have lost more than 100,000 lives in the pandemic that began last year, showing how the world’s epicenter for the virus is shifting beyond Europe and America to Southeast Asia trib.al/KWDTR7G
The Covid death toll has risen frighteningly fast for Indonesia.

More than a third of fatalities was recorded in July alone, when the highly transmissible delta variant took hold, overwhelming hospitals and depleting the supply of oxygen. More: trib.al/KWDTR7G
Indonesia has reached a grim milestone as more than 100,000 people died from the coronavirus, becoming the second country in Asia to breach that threshold trib.al/gMizy95

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