PHOTO GALLERY: Volunteers help gravediggers in Indonesia as a devastating surge rips through the Southeast Asian nation, which is now Asia's hot spot with over 80,000 COVID-19 fatalities.
Relatives prepare a grave for a COVID-19 victim at Cipenjo cemetery in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on July 14, 2021. With the numbers of death increasing from the latest virus surge in Indonesia which has crippled the healthcare system in Java and Bali, relatives and residents decided to volunteer to dig graves using their own hoes and shovels to help exhausting gravediggers.
For the past two weeks, they’ve put into earth more than 10 bodies a day, up from two previously — a sign of a devastating surge ripping through the Southeast Asian nation, which is now Asia’s hot spot with over 80,000 COVID-19 fatalities and more than 3 million confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.“The relatives of the dead asked the community leaders for help to find gravediggers.
The volunteers use their own hoes and shovels brought from home. Other graveyards often use heavy machinery to meet the needs.
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