Jakarta Dominates Additional Daily Cases Of COVID-19 On The Last Day Of 2021

JAKARTA - The Task Force (Satgas) for Handling COVID-19 reported that DKI Jakarta Province dominated the number of additional daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 as many as 87 patients.

The Task Force on Friday, December 31, recorded that the additional COVID-19 cases were followed by West Java with 19 patients, East Java with 18 patients, North Sumatra with seven patients and Central Java with six patients.

The positive confirmed cases increased the number of daily national COVID-19 cases to 180 cases, bringing the total positive confirmed cases from March 2020 to 4,262,720 people.

Meanwhile, it was recorded that the most daily recovered patients from COVID-19 were 45 people in West Java, 21 in DKI Jakarta, 14 in East Java, 11 in West Sumatra, and ten in DI Yogyakarta.

Thus, nationally, the daily cure rate increased by 193 people, bringing the total to 4,114,334 people.

For additional cases, the most deaths were in East Java Province with four people, DKI Jakarta and Bali with one person each.

It was recorded that the total daily death cases nationally amounted to six people, bringing the total to 144,094 people.

The COVID-19 Task Force also noted that the number of active cases of COVID-19 sufferers who are still undergoing treatment and self-isolation is currently 4,292 active cases, a decrease of 19 cases compared to the previous day, Thursday (30/12).

In addition, the COVID-19 Task Force also recorded 4,183 people who were included in the suspect category from 210,350 specimens in hundreds of laboratory networks throughout Indonesia.

Previously, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, appealed to the public to comply with health protocols and hasten the COVID-19 vaccination.

"We urge the public to avoid traveling abroad, considering that the Omicron variant is still quite high in some countries," he said, quoted by Antara.

Nadia said that within two weeks, on December 26, 2021, 46 cases of Omicron were detected in Indonesia, 15 of whom (32.6%) were travelers from Turkey. The rest are confirmed cases of Omicron originating from travelers from the UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Malaysia, Malawi, Republic of the Congo, Spain, USA, Kenya, Korea, Egypt and Nigeria.

He said 74 percent of Omicron cases had been fully vaccinated, 80 percent were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms, and 96 percent of cases were Indonesian citizens.

Until December 29, 2021, Nadia said, there were 21 additional confirmed cases of Omicron in Indonesia, which were foreign travelers. This brings the total number of Omicron cases to 68 people.