The Trend Of The Death Rate Due To COVID-19 In Indonesia Is Claimed To Be Decreased

JAKARTA - A member of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force expert team Dewi Nur Aisyah stated that the trend of deaths from confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 has continued to decline, starting from the beginning of the COVID-19 cases entering Indonesia in March.

"If we look at the shift in the national death rate, since the discovery of COVID-19 until now, our mortality rate has continued to decline," said Dewi in a discussion at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Monday, August 3.

Dewi explained that the death rate initially rose from 0 percent in March, until it reached a fairly high number, namely 9.34 percent of deaths from COVID-19 cases at that time. In March, the death rate averaged 4.89 percent.

In April, the death toll was still high, from a low of 7.83 and a peak of 9.5 percent in mid-April. The average COVID-19 death rate in April was 8.64 percent.

Then, the trend started showing a decline in May until now. The average mortality rate in May was 6.68 percent, July was 5.56 percent, and early August was 4.81 percent.

"But we still have homework. We must keep reducing the mortality rate as low as possible and we have to increase the cure rate," said Dewi.

Dewi continued, the decreasing trend in the mortality rate is also in line with the increase in the cure rate for COVID-19 cases. In early March, the average cure rate for COVID-19 was 3.84 percent.

Then, the cure rate slowly rose to 9.79 percent in April. Then, it rose again on the May average of 21.97, then June at 37.19 percent, and the July average of 51.11 percent.

"As of 2 August yesterday, we have reached 61.79 percent. So, we see that there is a fairly good recovery progress for positive COVID-19 patients in Indonesia," he said.

Furthermore, Dewi explained that the cause of the death rate from COVID-19 continues to decline and the cure rate is increasing. He said, most cases confirmed positive today have mild symptoms.

"Patients who only have mild symptoms are 80 percent, while around 5 percent have severe symptoms or are in the ICU, and only 1 percent need a ventilator," he added.