World News Day: Covering a Covid-19 burial — The photojournalists' stories

A family member takes a picture in front of a new grave of Covid-19 victim at the Pondok Rangon cemetery in April. — Photos: Muhammad Adimaja/ANTARA

IN mid-March, weeks after the first two cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) were reported in Indonesia, the number of patients testing positive and deaths in Jakarta, the virus epicenter, began to alarmingly rise.

The capital city’s administrator reported burying over one thousand bodies in line with the coronavirus protocol during the month, with the ensuing impact on health workers owing to infection and fatigue.