JAKARTA - Indonesia's Health Ministry announced 127 Covid-19 deaths on Sunday , the highest one-day death toll so far.
"One hundred twenty-seven deaths were recorded today, bringing the total number of Covid-19 deaths to 4,143," the ministry's disease control and prevention director general, Achmad Yurianto, said in his daily press briefing, referring to the number for the 24 hours ending at noon on Sunday. East Java remains the province with the highest death toll, far surpassing other regions, including Jakarta's 736 deaths.Meanwhile, both Jakarta and South Sulawesi provinces recorded nine new deaths, respectively.
The Health Ministry recently expanded its definition of a Covid-19 death"for surveillance purposes" to include the deaths of probable cases but has yet to publicly announce the numbers under the new definition.
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