Indonesia church decorates Christmas tree with masks, sanitisers to promote COVID awareness
HERU ASPRIHANTO A catholic church in Indonesia has decorated a Christmas tree with protective masks and hand sanitisers as a way to spread awareness of COVID-19 in the festive season, as the country's daily death toll hit a record high on Sunday. "The tree was made with the intention of making people more aware of the importance of maintaining health protocols," Markus Marcelinus Hardo Iswanto of the parish of The Catholic Church of Christ the King in Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya told Reuters. Starting with a bamboo skeleton, the church's followers and the local Muslim community decorated the tree with…