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Volunteer undertakers bear the dead from Indonesian homes as Covid-19 deaths rise

After his work as a taxi driver dried up because of Indonesia's new coronavirus restrictions, Ardi Novriansyah offered his driving skills to help his home city's buckling medical system.

Ardi, 41, is one of about 35 volunteers in Bogor, south of Jakarta, who recover the bodies of people that have died from Covid-19 while isolating at home.

Grabbing what sleep he can on a couch at the group's headquarters in an unused building...

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