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Emergency tents erected outside Jakarta hospitals as virus cases surge

Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for Covid-19 beds, the health minister said, as authorities scramble to boost hospital capacity amid a spike in coronavirus cases.

The world's fourth most populous nation reported that overall coronavirus cases topped 2 million this week, while Thursday's 20,574 rise in infections was the biggest since the start of the pandemic.

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