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Health

Indonesia reports 367 new coronavirus cases, 23 deaths

FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face mask practice social distancing while receiving rice from an automated rice ATM distributor amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in Jakarta, Indonesia May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

Indonesia reported 367 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total to 12,438, said health ministry official Achmad Yurianto.

Twenty three more people who tested positive for the virus have died in the Southeast Asian nation, taking the total number of deaths to 895, the highest death toll in East Asia outside China.

As of Wednesday, more than 92,000 people had been tested and 2,317 had recovered.

(Reporting by Nilufar Nizki and Wilda Asmarini; Writing by Kate Lamb, editing by Louise Heavens)

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