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Indonesia Receives 100 Ventilator Assistance from US-Australia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that Indonesia had received 100 units of respiratory support or ventilators each from the United States and Australia as a corona virus pandemic. Retno said 100 ventilators from the US arrived in Jakarta on Wednesday (7/22) yesterday, while 100 ventilators from Australia arrived on Tuesday (7/21). "The 100 ventilators from the US are the first stage of delivery of the 1,000 ventilator aid plans from the US which will arrive gradually," Retno said in a virtual press conference on Thursday (7/23). Retno said hundreds of these ventilators would be handed over to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) as chair of the Covid-19 task force. In addition to receiving ventilator assistance, Indonesia-US is also exploring cooperation in the procurement of corona drugs and vaccines to ventilator production...