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Indonesia reports record daily rise in COVID-19 cases – Metro US

Indonesia reports record daily rise in COVID-19 cases

A woman wearing a protective mask walks on a sidewalk
A woman wearing a protective mask walks on a sidewalk of the main road, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Jakarta

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia reported on Thursday a record daily rise in COVID-19 cases, with 11,557 new infections, bringing the total caseload to 869,600, data from the country’s COVID-19 task force showed.

It added 295 COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 25,246.

(Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe and Nilufar Rizki; Writing by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Ed Davies)