Australia's northern neighbour Indonesia is being ravaged by another wave of Covid-19 as the number of cases passes 2.6million and 68,219 people have died.
The nation's Covid statistics are now the worst in south-east Asia, with the per capita death toll now higher than India's.
The highly contagious Delta variant combined with religious holiday travel and poor Covid controls and contact tracing outside the capital Jakarta are all blamed for the huge spike in cases.
Just this week the country's Covid-10 Taskforce announced 40,427 cases on Monday and 47,899 new cases on Tuesday.
Those figures are widely believed to be a vast undercount due to low testing and poor tracing measures.
Graveyard workers carry the coffin of a Covid-19 victim at the Keputih cemetery at Surabaya, East Java on July 9
Funeral workers bury a Covid-19 patient in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Indonesia on July 10. More than 68,000 Indonesians had now died from the virus
Covid-19 patients receive treatment using oxygen tanks outside the emergency room of a hospital at Surabaya, East Java, on July 11
Family members visit a relative's grave at the Pedurenan Covid-19 public cemetery in Bekasi, West Java in this aerial picture taken on July 7, 2021
Indonesia's most populous island of Java and popular tourist destination of Bali have been in lockdown since July 3, with only essential workers allowed to travel.
Earlier this month The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Indonesia was 'teetering on the edge of a Covid-19 catastrophe'.
Trainee doctors and new medial graduates were being drafted in to deal with the crisis as the country's hospitals reached capacity and struggled to maintain oxygen supplies, the ABC reported.
The Indonesian Doctors Association also reported that at least
