More than 2,200 Indonesians died with acute symptoms of Covid-19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease, a Reuters review of data says
A municipality worker walks among graves at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirus disease victims in Jakarta, Indonesia April, 22, 2020.
The data is collated by provincial agencies daily or weekly from figures supplied by hospitals, clinics and officials overseeing burials. It was obtained by Reuters by checking websites, talking to provincial officials and reviewing World Health Organization reports. Adisasmito is the most senior public health expert on Indonesia's Covid-19 taskforce and the press office of President Joko Widodo typically refers queries to the taskforce.
Some senior government members played down the risk of an outbreak in January and February with some suggesting that prayer, herbal remedies and hot weather would help ward off the virus. The death toll is now the highest in Asia after China, according to a Reuters tally.The provincial data follows a report by Reuters this month that burials in the capital Jakarta in March were up by 40 percent on any month since at least January 2018.
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