Indonesia Highlights: Indonesia Pursues IS Linked Terrorists Behind Central Sulawesi Attack | Mount Ile Lewotolok Eruption in East Nusa Tenggara Province Prompts Mass Evacuation | Indonesia Sets New Daily Record of Covid-19 Cases with 6,267

Video footage acquired by Kompas.com showed the panicked locals fleeing towards safer ground at lower altitudes, particularly after they heard loud noises coming from the mountain.

“We have picked up more than 21 thousand people and brought them to safer ground in the town of Lewoleba, as we have done according to emergency plans. We managed to supply them with food for the time being,” said Lembata Regent Yance Sunur.

“I also urged the evacuees to abide by Covid-19 health protocols during the evacuation, so as to avoid a cluster in the camps housing them.”

The Lembata Police Precinct were also deployed to the area “to assist the evacuation. They also helped evacuate the elderly by carrying them,” said East Nusa Tenggara regional police spokesman Chief Police Johannes Bangun.

Mount Ile Lewotolok spewed volcanic ash to a height of four thousand meters. High winds spread the ash to villages in the Ile Ape and East Ile Ape districts to the west and east

Sources:

https://regional.kompas.com/read/2020/11/29/18285801/dengar-gemuruh-warga-sekitar-gunung-ile-lewotolok-lembata-kabur-ke-lokasi. 

https://regional.kompas.com/read/2020/11/29/21005121/gunung-ile-lewotolok-meletus-polisi-evakuasi-warga-dan-gendong-lansia. 

3. Indonesia Sets New Daily Record of Covid-19 Cases with 6,267

Indonesia has set a grim new milestone in its fight against the coronavirus, as the number of Covid-19 cases reached 6,267 people in 24 hours from 29 to 30 November.

“The increased number of cases brought up Indonesia’s Covid-19 numbers to 534.266, since the pandemic was first detected in Indonesia last March,” said the Covid-19 task force in its website Covid19.go.id and the Healthy Ministry website Kemkes.go.id.

The authorities noted that the number of dead stood at 16,815 people after 169 people died in the pandemic. On the other hand, 445,793 cases have recovered from Covid-19 after 3,810 were given a clean bill of health.

Yet the team warned that Indonesia has yet to see the light at the end of Covid-19 the tunnel, even as the government is expected to procure vaccines to immunize the public “There are still 70,792 whom we felt to be actively suspected cases.”

Source:

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2020/11/29/15274911/update-bertambah-6267-kasus-covid-19-di-indonesia-mencapai-534266.