Indonesia struggles as it becomes the world’s latest COVID hot spot

COVID-19 is tearing through Indonesia, where the total case count is nearing 3 million. The rate of infections has skyrocketed since mid-May. And, as Ashley Westerman reports, many Indonesians are angry that they’re in such a position more than a year after the pandemic began.

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