Indonesia reports 338 new Covid-19 cases, 35 deaths

7 May 2020 • 6:07 PM MYT
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People wearing protective face masks and practising social distancing while receiving rice from an automated rice ATM distributor amid the coronavirus disease spread in Jakarta, Indonesia May 4, 2020. — Reuters pic

JAKARTA, May 7 — Indonesia reported 338 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number to 12,776, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto told reporters on Thursday.

Thirty-five more people who tested positive for the virus have died, taking the total number of deaths to 930, the highest death toll in East Asia outside China.

As of Thursday, 96,717 people had been tested and 2,381 had recovered. — Reuters