The death toll from Covid in Indonesia has reached 100,636 according to figures released today.
This latest figure doubles the number of deaths recorded only 2 months ago.
The island nation now becomes the 12th country in the world to lay claim to this grim statistic and sits second behind India as the only Asian countries to have recorded such a high number of deaths.
By comparison, the next highest death toll in the region is the Phillipines which has recorded only 28,000 deaths from a total of 1.6 million confirmed cases.
The number of confirmed cases in Indonesia now stands at 3.5 million with 35,000 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.
Although this figure is down on the record 56,967 new daily cases recorded on July 15, the reported cases numbers are widely believed to be an inaccurate guide to the true number of Covid infections.
The death toll however, does give a clearer picture of the scale of the crisis presently unfolding here as reflected in the increased demand for burial sites.
Case numbers worldwide presently show that 1 person in 50 who has contracted Covid-19 has already died from the infection.
Based on Indonesia’s death toll, the total number of infections is possibly closer to 5 million than the 3.5 million cases reported so far.
This number however, is also likely to be an under-estimation given a sereological survey conducted prior to the Delta outbreak, found that 5 million people may have already contracted the virus in the city of Jakarta alone.
At this stage, the one thing that is certain is an end to Indonesia’s coronavirus crisis is nowhere in sight.