we go ahead and also for him, jeff kingston, that the director of asian studies at temple university in japan. great. get you a thought to announce there. thank you for joining us, jeff. se asia, whilst cove at 19 outbreak shows no sign of slowing down with more than $50000.00 new cases reported each day in indonesia. more than 72000 people have now died from the virus test so far. and as jessica washington reports from the capital jakarta, the funeral industry is now looking to volunteers to help bury the dead. on the outskirts of the indonesian capital, yet another family has lost a relative to cope with. love, wake up! she cried. please don't sleep. it's the last time she will ever see her father. as indonesia struggled through the surgeon covert 900 deaths, there were too many grieving families and not enough workers to help bury the dead . some communities are now relying on volunteers. you just get back to them and that we don't receive any payment. we do our job from the heart. he cleans the bodies and also drives coffins to the symmetry and got the number of this is so high he

jeff kingston's, the director of asian studies at temple university in japan. he says, was growing concerned. the games will become a super spreader event. and they're trying to put a brave face on this. the i o. c, chairman, bach on television, reassuring the japanese people. there is 0 risk, but clearly there's law skepticism here in japan about these reassurances. and this is exactly what public health authorities have a warning against and why a prime minister su guys chief adviser uncovered 19, was opposed to holding the olympics and insisted on no spectators. so hopefully they manage to contain this. but this is a bad sign as thousands of athletes are arriving this week, and they'll be more than 50000, a limping related guest, also arriving. and just as the delta variant is swirling around the globe, the vaccination here is just 20 percent of a lot of things cannot be anticipated. we don't really know of and the that's the real problem. big question mark over these olympic cents. why about 80 percent of the japanese people did not think it was a good idea