KUDUS, INDONESIA — Two weeks after Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations last month, Indonesian Sutiyo Darto began developing a fever that would not go away.
His wife, children and most of the 50 families they visited in Kudus, in Central Java, were also unwell.
“It turned out that everyone had contracted Covid-19. It was truly terrifying. Several times a day, the mosque near my house would announce through the loudspeakers that someone has died from the coronavirus. When will it be my turn?” the 51-year-old odd-job laborer told The Straits Times by phone from a quarantine facility.
Kudus, the smallest regency in Java of 871,000 people, was…
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