Doctors and nurses perform a choreographed dance in a hospital yard in Indonesia while dressed in personal protective equipment in order to keep fit.

Video filmed on Tuesday (May 19) at Batam City Hospital on Riau Island shows the health workers enthusiastically dancing.

Newsflare's filmer said the joint exercises were aimed at building up immunity during the coronavirus pandemic.

The fitness routine takes place every morning in the hospital yard.

A number of nurses and doctors who treat coronavirus patients in Batam City Hospital, Indonesia, do joint exercises to improve body immunity, Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

This is done so that the body's immunity is strong so it is not easy to contract coronavirus when treating a number of patients who have contracted coronavirus.

This joint gymnastics is held every morning in the hospital yard.

Nurses and doctors carry out these exercises using personal protective clothing.

Movement in gymnastics is also done by demonstrating how to wash hands properly and correctly.


INTERVIEW: Novi (Nurse)

"Today's activity, we do once sunbathing, the appeal of sunbathing. So this is education for the community, so besides sunbathing we exercise. This time gymnastics is hand washing gymnastics. Six-step hand-washing exercises with clothes like this educates the public as well to always wear a mask.

The benefit of sunbathing itself is to increase endurance and to get vitamin D also for the body and we also usually at 10 o'clock it stretches, so it happens to be sunbathing and stretching too. The sun can stretch.

This has been since we fought Coronavirus, so we have been doing gymnastics for a month, "



Video by: Agus Bagjana / Opn Images