?Suddenly, she?s gone?: Mourning in the mud in COVID-hit Indonesia

But then, when it started … I myself was also hospitalised,” he told Al Jazeera.One hundred fifty-three of his colleagues also contracted the virus, and two of them died.Indonesia’s capacity to track variants is limited, but doctors believe the current outbreak in Kudus is driven in part by the spread of the Delta variant, which was first detected in India.“We sent cases from health centre [for genome sequencing]… from 72 samples, 62 were the new variant,” Dr Abdul said.At Aisyiyah Kudus Hospital, Dr Najib Budhiwardoyo said his hospital is completely at capacity.“We are full of COVID patients. This week, Indonesia surpassed two million confirmed cases of coronavirus – and more than 55,000 confirmed deaths.The cemetery at Rorotan has been built on what was once a swamp in northern Jakarta [Fakhrur Roz/Al Jazeera]The cemetery at Rorotan has only been open for a few weeks and more than 800 people have already been buried there [Jessica Washington/Al Jazeera] Dr Nadia Siti, the head of Infectious Diseases at the Ministry of Health, said the rise in cases is not surprising.“We know that if there is a holiday or event, there is an increasing number of people moving and travelling from other cities,” she said.“The government had restrictions on mudik, which is the tradition of Muslims to visit their hometown [during Eid Al Fitr].