There Are 225 Regencies / Cities In Indonesia With No Death Rate Due To COVID-19

JAKARTA - Member of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Expert Team Dewi Nur Aisyah explained a weekly analysis of the development of the COVID-19 case. As of August 2, as many as 43.77 percent of districts / cities in Indonesia have no mortality rate.

"As many as 225 of the 514 districts / cities have no death toll from COVID-19," Dewi said in a discussion at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Wednesday, August 5.

Then, there are 15.18 percent or 78 districts / cities that have the death of 1 person, 28.6 percent or 147 districts / cities with the death of 2 to 10 people, then 12.45 percent or 64 city districts with more than 10 deaths.

Dewi continued, the city of Surabaya has the highest death rate from COVID-19 if divided per 100 thousand inhabitants, which is 26.78 per 100 thousand inhabitants.

Then, the regions with other highest mortality rates are Semarang City with 19.59 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Manado City with 19.23 deaths per 10,000 inhabitants, and Banjarmasin City with 18.66 per 100,000 inhabitants.

"This is an alert for all of us, both local and central government, to see which areas need better handling and self-control of COVID-19 in order to reduce the number of deaths there," said Dewi.

Meanwhile, the region with the lowest mortality rate was Cianjur, with 0.04 deaths per 100,000 population. Then, Tasikmalaya with 0.06 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants, Pemalang with 0.07 deaths per 100 thousand population, and Serang with 0.07 deaths per 100 thousand population.

Furthermore, Dewi said that the trend of the death rate since the beginning of COVID-19 entering Indonesia for 5 months has tended to decline.

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 to show its decline in May until now. The average death rate in May was 6.68 percent, July was 5.56 percent, and the death rate per August 4 was 4.68 percent.

"From March it was high. At the beginning, we needed additional number of referral hospitals, number of human resources for doctors, and so on. This is a lesson from time to time," he said.