Indonesia has reported 54,517 new cases of Covid-19, state authorities, a single-day national record, and a calamitous warning sign for the world’s fourth-most populated country.
The island nation which is home to about 270 million people is now recording more cases in a day than hard-hit India.
Recent statics from Indonesia has made the country a new epicenter for the pandemic in Asia.
If the spread continues undiminished, experts have claimed that it could push Indonesia’s health care system on the edge of disaster.
Some experts have also claimed that the situation may be worse than the numbers show, because not sufficient people are getting tested for the virus.
Whereas according to the survey found that nearly half of the 10.6 million populace of Jakarta may have contracted Covid-19.
Experts have stated that Indonesia is now obtaining the costs of not instigating strict lockdowns nor investing enough inefficient contact-tracing systems.
At first, authorities did not understand how rapidly the virus had been scattering in this latest wave, stated Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
Officials are concerned that hospitals may not be able to manage an increasing number of patients demanding hospitalization, especially as the more contagious Delta variant of the virus spreads.
Another 991 Covid-19 fatalities were also reported, pushing the total death toll to 69,210.
