<span style="color: #222222;">Indonesia will provide free telemedicine services to coronavirus patients with mild symptoms in an effort to reduce pressure on a healthcare sector inundated by record numbers of COVID-19 cases. Indonesia is battling one of Asia's worst COVID-19 epidemics, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant.<br />''<br />''Indonesia's health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the remote services will be provided from tomorrow by tele-health firms such as Alodokter and Halodoc and will include free consultations and medication delivery. He added that positive COVID-19 patients can get medical services on time without waiting in line at hospitals, so that hospitals can be prioritised for patients with medium, heavy, and critical symptoms.<br />''<br />''Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said that health spending would be raised again to 13.39 billion US Dollars for coronavirus treatment, testing, tracing, drugs, vaccines and protective gear.</span><br />