Anies Denies Accusations Of Raising Death Data: It's A Fact That There Is A Big Problem Threatening The City

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan emphasized that his party has never exaggerated the data on deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what has been conveyed since the beginning of the pandemic is data according to existing facts.

Anies said that the issue of exaggerating death data was widely raised at the beginning of the pandemic when the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government conveyed the fact that funeral services by the City Parks and Forest Service experienced a significant spike between February and May 2020.

"At that time some said Jakarta was exaggerating, exaggerating, scaring. Now, we have been going for two years, there is nothing we are afraid of. It is a fact that there is a big problem that is threatening our city," said Anies in his personal Youtube broadcast, in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Sunday, February 13.

In fact, Anies said funeral services carried out by the DKI Parks and Forests Service experienced a significant spike starting in February 2020, then in March, the number began to jump, then in April it was high. and May 2020 is very high.

"We convey the facts as they are and we never cover up the death data. We report between those who have been tested so that it can be declared COVID-19 and those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 but there is no laboratory yet. We record everything, then we have complete data. for services for deaths and events," he said. Later, Anies said that due to the large number of COVID-19 patients who died, he realized that many children in Jakarta were orphans, orphans or orphans.

Anies added that his party immediately held a special meeting to discuss assistance for children whose parents died due to COVID-19.

He said that from the results of the meeting the number of people who died was more than 13 thousand people and resulted in nine thousand children in Jakarta becoming orphans or orphans.

"If we weren't open to data in the past, then we wouldn't know how many children their parents left because of COVID-19," he said.