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Indonesia Becomes Second in Asia to Hit 100,000 Covid Deaths
- Indonesia joins 11 countries that lost more than 100,000 lives
- Government imposed curbs in July, seeks to quicken vaccination
Funeral workers bury Covid-19 victims at a cemetery in Jakarta on Aug. 4.
Photographer: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images
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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.
After weeks of topping the world’s tally of daily Covid-19 deaths, Southeast Asia’s largest economy added 1,747 fatalities on Wednesday, according to data from the health ministry, bringing its total number to 100,636.