Indonesia is tripling its oxygen supplies to hospitals as data suggests the Delta variant of coronavirus is now driving the country’s worsening outbreak, accounting for more than 60 percent of recent cases.Indonesia’s health minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said that three-quarters of the national oxygen production used for industry would be redeployed to hospitals for the next two weeks.“We learned from India to make sure the supply is there,” he said.Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populou

Indonesia has announced a lockdown on its main island Java, as well as the tourism destination of Bali.The announcement by President Joko Widodo comes as the country battles multiple outbreaks and an alarming spike in COVID cases.Indonesia recently recorded two million COVID cases, attributed to increased holiday travel and the Delta variant.The lockdown will last two weeks and aims to reduce the number of cases to below 10,000 a day.The country is currently recording more than 20,000 new cas

The Indonesian government’s plan to relocate the country’s capital from Java to Borneo has hit a wall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with a top official saying they would “evaluate it or something” after the crisis passes.President Joko Widodo announced last August a US$33 billion project to build a new capital city in East Kalimantan province, citing worsening traffic, land subsidence, flooding and a host of other problems in Jakarta.But the government’s current focus on handling the COVID-19 o