Indonesia Seeks More Oxygen for Covid-19 Patients amid Surge in Delta Variant Cases

Meanwhile, Jakarta Administration has provided an oxygen filling station at the National Monument area in Central Jakarta. 

A spokesperson for Jakarta Provincial Secretariat Suharti said the oxygen filling station is provided for all hospitals across Jakarta. 

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"The Jakarta Administration wants to ensure that the oxygen supply at the hospitals is adequate. We are trying to collaborate with other parties to help supply oxygen by using tubes and tube filling," said Suharti on Sunday, July 4.

Suharti said the Jakarta Administration is collaborating with state firm Krakatau Steel in Cilegon, Banten to fill empty oxygen cylinders. "On Sunday, 250 oxygen gas cylinders with a capacity of six cubic meters have been refilled for 25 hospitals in Jakarta," she said, adding that the station will open during the handling of Covid-19 in the capital. 

Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country, has seen a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases in the last two weeks. The Health Ministry recorded 27,233 new cases with 555 deaths from the virus on Sunday. The country has recorded more than 2,284,000 cases, including 60,582 deaths since the first two confirmed cases were announced in March last year. 

(Writers: Dian Erika Nugraheny, Singgih Wiryono, Nur Rohmi Aida, Mutia Fauzia| Editors: Icha Rastika, Dani Prabowo, Rendika Ferri Kurniawan, Mutia Fauzia)

Sources: Kompas.com