Indonesia's COVID-19 surge has been so extreme that volunteers are recovering dead bodies from people's homes as hospitals turn patients away

• Indonesia is battling a huge coronavirus surge that has overwhelmed hospitals.
• Volunteers have stepped in to remove the bodies of coronavirus patients from their homes instead.
• Volunteers are also digging graves and sourcing oxygen.

Volunteers in Indonesia are taking coronavirus dead from people's homes as the country battles a devastating coronavirus surge, and hospitals are too overwhelmed to treat patients.

The country has seen a huge surge in new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths since the beginning of July:

Volunteers are now being used to remove dead bodies, as well as do things like building coffins and trying to track down oxygen tanks for infected people, $4.

Ardi Novriansyah, a former ambulance driver, $4 he had been getting around 24 calls a day to recover bodies from people's homes over the last month.

"What's important is that we have a desire to help as volunteers, for humanity," he said.