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'Extremely disturbing': Jump in Jakarta funerals raises fears of unreported COVID-19 deaths
Tom Allard, Kanupriya Kapoor and Stanley Widianto
Reuters
Jakarta / Sat, April 4, 2020 / 10:00 am
The number of funerals in Jakarta rose sharply in March, a development the governor of Indonesia’s capital city said suggested that deaths from the new coronavirus may be higher than officially reported.
Nearly 4,400 burials occurred in March, 40 percent higher than any month since at least January, 2018, according to a Reuters review of statistics from the city’s Department of Parks and Cemeteries. The second-highest total during that period was March 2019, when nearly 3,100 people were buried.
Reuters was able to obtain statistics going back to the start of 2018.
The city has been at the epicenter of novel coronavirus infections in Indonesia, accounting for 971 cases and 90 deaths, according to central government data, or roughly half the country’s total for both.
Jakarta’s governor, Anies Baswedan, and some public health experts suspect the number of infections and deaths in Jakarta has been significantly under-reported due to one of the world’s lowest rates of testing...
'Extremely disturbing': Jump in Jakarta funerals raises fears of unreported COVID-19 deaths
Tom Allard, Kanupriya Kapoor and Stanley Widianto
Reuters
Jakarta / Sat, April 4, 2020 / 10:00 am
The number of funerals in Jakarta rose sharply in March, a development the governor of Indonesia’s capital city said suggested that deaths from the new coronavirus may be higher than officially reported.
Nearly 4,400 burials occurred in March, 40 percent higher than any month since at least January, 2018, according to a Reuters review of statistics from the city’s Department of Parks and Cemeteries. The second-highest total during that period was March 2019, when nearly 3,100 people were buried.
Reuters was able to obtain statistics going back to the start of 2018.
The city has been at the epicenter of novel coronavirus infections in Indonesia, accounting for 971 cases and 90 deaths, according to central government data, or roughly half the country’s total for both.
Jakarta’s governor, Anies Baswedan, and some public health experts suspect the number of infections and deaths in Jakarta has been significantly under-reported due to one of the world’s lowest rates of testing...