Workers carry a coffin for burial at the special section of Jombang Public Cemetery reserved for those who died of COVID-19, in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Indonesia surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, a grim milestone in a country struggling with its worst pandemic wave fueled by the delta variant, amid concerns the actual figure could be much higher. AP PHOTO
Workers carry a coffin for burial at the special section of Jombang Public Cemetery reserved for those who died of COVID-19, in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Indonesia surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, a grim milestone in a country struggling with its worst pandemic wave fueled by the delta variant, amid concerns the actual figure could be much higher. AP PHOTO


JAKARTA: Indonesia surpassed 100,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, a grim milestone in a country struggling with its worst pandemic wave fueled by the Delta variant amid concerns the actual figure could be much higher.

It took 14 months for Indonesia to exceed the 50,000-death mark at the end of May and just over nine weeks to double it. The Health Ministry recorded 1,747 new deaths of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours bringing the total to 100,636.

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