Seventy-one people have so far died from exhaustion following the world’s largest single-day election in Indonesia last week, according to the government. Ednews reports the following citing The South China Morning Post.
Some 4,000 others fell sick between February 14 and February 18 due to fatigue after helping run the February 14 election, Hasyim Asy’ari, chairman of the nation’s poll body said in a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
The death toll came despite the government imposing an age cap for volunteers and mandating health checks after more than 500 workers died in 2019
Five million paid volunteers worked at around 800,000 voting booths across the nation in last week’s voting, which lasted for about six hours
