JAKARTA (INDONESIA) – With many schools shut due to COVID-19, 29-year-old Yusuf Iswahyu, who has ferried Indonesian children in his yellow bus for a decade, has now joined hands with other drivers to take patients infected with the virus to an emergency hospital in Jakarta.
Yusuf has a screen to guard him and wears a protective equipment, however, he is still apprehensive. “Of course I am scared… but I never thought of quitting as what I do is not only about work but for humanity.”
The hospital where Yusuf ferries is where he himself became a patient in May.
Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan has ordered those infected to go under isolation in one of the several state-appointed facilities even if they do not have acute symptoms.
The world’s fourth most populous country has 266,845 confirmed cases and a death toll of 10,218.