Jakarta is the province with the highest number of deaths with 46, followed by West Java with 11, and Central Java with six.
Indonesia's death toll is the highest in Southeast Asia, followed by the Philippines with 45, and its mortality rate of 8.73 percent is among the highest in the world.
On Thursday, the Health Ministry's disease control and prevention director general Achmad Yurianto announced 103 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 893.
Jakarta still has the majority of cases with 515, an increase of 53 since Wednesday.
Another region with a significant increase was South Sulawesi with 14 new cases, more than doubling its total number of cases to 27.
“Four more people have recovered,” Yurianto said, adding that the total number of recovered COVID-19 patients in the country was 35.(mfp)