Health
With schools shut, Indonesian bus drivers ferry COVID-19 patients instead – Reuters
For the past decade, Yusuf Iswahyu has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus to and from their schools.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – For the past decade, Yusuf Iswahyu has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus to and from their schools.
But with many shut due to COVID-19, the 29-year-old has now signed up alongside other drivers to take patients infected with the virus to an emergency hospital in Jakarta.
Yusufs bus has a screen to shield him and he wears protective equipment, but that does not stop him feeling apprehensive – especially after contracting the disease during an earlier stint transp…
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