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Ferdy Piay (second to right). Credit: Twitter/@suryodipuro
Indonesia’s acting ambassador to India, Ferdy Piay, died in Jakarta on Tuesday after battling with Covid-19 for weeks.
Piay was the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Indonesia in New Delhi.
He was the first head of a foreign diplomatic mission in India to die after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Piay underwent treatment for Covid-19 in a hospital in New Delhi before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesian Government arranged for airlifting him to Jakarta, where he breathed his last on Tuesday, sources said.
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