Indonesia’s acting ambassador to India, Ferdy Piay, succumbed to the COVID-19 infection on Tuesday after fighting for weeks in Jakarta Indonesia, reported Deccan Herald.
Piay was the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Indonesia in New Delhi and was the first head of a foreign diplomatic mission in India to die after being infected with Covid-19, as per the report.
Piay underwent treatment for Covid-19 in a hospital in New Delhi before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Indonesian Government arranged for airlifting him to Jakarta, where he breathed his last on Tuesday, reported DH quoting the unnamed sources.
