Indonesia – Coronavirus: Volunteer motorcyclists escort ambulances to hospitals

Indonesian volunteer motorcyclist Sebastian Duijandoro and his team are very busy helping ambulances move through heavy traffic in the city of Depok Indonesia to transport patients with COVID-19 in hospitals as the number of coronavirus cases in the country is rapidly increasing.

Volunteers on motorcycles take the lead by making room and stopping other cars, followed by ambulances with sirens, which transport patients to hospitals or corpses to cemeteries, according to APE.

Sebastian, 24, who has been working for Indonesia Escorting Ambulance for four years in his spare time, says his team now makes up to 20 trips a day, up from three to four a day before the latest outbreak. His permanent profession is a security guard.

Indonesia records more than 20,000 new cases and more than 400 deaths daily in the last week as the most contagious variant of the coronavirus, Delta, has accelerated the increase in cases and has hit the country’s health sector. With 2.28 million cases and more than 60,500 deaths from COVID-19, the country is the hardest hit in Southeast Asia.

Last week, Indonesia announced it would put its most populous island, Java, and the resort island of Bali under stricter travel restrictions from July 20 to curb the spread of the virus.

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