A Total Of 19,921 COVID-19 Patients At The Heal Athletes Village

JAKARTA - The Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital (RSD), Kemayoran, Jakarta, noted that the number of COVID-19 patients who had recovered until 18 October 2020 had reached 19,921 people.

Head of Information for Kogabwilhan I Colonel Marines Aris Mudian said the number of recovered patients was an accumulation of records since March 23, 2020.

"From March 23 to October 18, 2020, 21,794 patients were registered, 19,921 patients recovered. Patients were registered from Tower 6-7," he said as quoted by Antara , Sunday, October 18.

There were 388 patients who had to be referred to other hospitals and eight patients died.

The latest data, the number of patients hospitalized at Tower 6-7 RSD Wisma Atlet currently confirmed positive for COVID-19 as many as 1,478 people, consisting of 689 men and 788 women.

For Tower 4- 5, which was only operated in mid-September 2020, the number of registered patients until October 18, 2020 reached 9,339 people and 1,274 patients were treated.

President Joko Widodo on Monday, March 23, 2020, officially functioned as a COVID-19 Emergency Hospital, Wisma Atlet Kemayoran has a total capacity to accommodate 12 thousand people.

Not only at Wisma Atlet Hospital, Aris also conveyed the latest data on patients recovering from COVID-19 who were treated at the Special Infection Hospital on Galang Island, Batam City, Riau Islands.

RSKI Pulau Galang recorded 337 hospitalized patients (173 men and 164 women), consisting of 242 patients who were confirmed positive for COVID-19, while 95 suspected patients.

Recapitulation from April 12 to October 18, 2020, there were 3,823 registered patients, 1,335 patients recovered, and 2,138 suspected patients finished undergoing treatment.

There were 13 patients who needed referral to another hospital, while the patients who died were nil.

The Galang Island Hospital, which was built since March 9 2020 to anticipate the increase in COVID-19 patients in Indonesia, has officially opened its operation on April 6, 2020. *