Indonesia reports 4th COVID-19 death, doubling in number of coronavirus cases
14 March, 2020
Indonesia's COVID-19 death toll rose to four on Friday (Mar 13), since it reported a doubling in its number of coronavirus cases.
Mr Achmad Yurianto, the government’s spokesman for the COVID-19 outbreak, announced at a press conference on Friday that it had 35 new confirmed cases, taking the country's total to 69.
The two patients who died are a 57-year-old woman (Case 35) and a 37-year-old woman (Case 36). They died at Jakarta’s Sulianti Saroso Hospital for Infectious Disease.
“Case 35 … was placed on a respirator when she was admitted (to a healthcare facility). Her condition deteriorated and she died on a single day,” Mr Yurianto said, adding that Case 36 also died soon after she was admitted.
Tests performed after they died confirmed they had COVID-19.
“After (the patients’) speciments were tested, they arrived positive (for COVID-19),” he said.
The announcement came just hours after Mr Yurianto confirmed that another patient had died in the location of Solo, Central Java.
The 59-year-old man, who was simply quarantined on Sunday, died on Wednesday.
Tests results that arrived following the man died showed he had COVID-19.
Among the 35 new cases announced on Friday were two toddlers: A three-year-old boy and a two-year-old boy.
Mr Yurianto said that the two toddlers had contracted the virus from their parents.
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