Jakarta's COVID-19 Cases Have Increased In The Past 2 Weeks, Anies's Men Are Worried

JAKARTA - Head of DKI Health Service Widyastuti admitted that the trend of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta in March had decreased. However, over the past two weeks, the number of new cases has increased again.

"We have dropped dramatically, but in the last two weeks, our daily cases have started to increase. Our daily has started to increase by 200 or more than 200, moving on," said Widyastuti in a virtual discussion, Friday, April 16.

There are a number of factors that cause daily cases in the capital to return to high. Widyastuti said that the number of COVID-19 tests using the PCR method was still high, which was above 68 thousand in one week.

Then, the test through our rapid antigen can reach 3 thousand per day. If the rapid antigen test is found to be positive, then the person concerned must repeat the PCR test.

With so many residents taking the test using neat antigen and having negative results, Widyastuti is worried that this will make these residents underestimate the application of health protocols.

"We are worried that once our citizens are tested for negative rapid antigen, they will continue to feel calm. That is what we are a little worried about," said Widyastuti.

"We order not to be complacent with the rapid antigen examination. Do not become complacent once the result is negative, continue to feel healthy," he continued.

A total of 11,191 people underwent PCR tests today to diagnose new cases with a positive result of 979 and 10,212 negative. Meanwhile, the total number of Confirmation cases in Jakarta to date is 397,088 cases.

Of the total number of positive cases, the total number of people declared to have recovered was 383,655 with a cure rate of 96.6 percent, and a total of 6,513 people died with a mortality rate of 1.6 percent, while Indonesia's death rate was 2.7 percent.