In Jakarta, Most Of The People Who Have Been Vaccinated And Have Contracted The COVID-19 Have Mild Symptoms

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Health Service, Widyastuti, said that her party had recorded cases of COVID-19 from people who had previously been vaccinated.

Although he did not mention the number, Widyastuti said that most cases of COVID-19 after vaccination had mild symptoms, namely 73 percent.

"In the positive confirmation cases after being vaccinated, 73 had mild symptoms, 21 percent were people without symptoms, and only 6 percent needed hospital treatment", Widyastuti said in his statement, Wednesday, April 28.

Widyastuti emphasized that it is important to undergo COVID-19 vaccination to prevent morbidity and death in positive confirmed cases. Thus, people who have been vaccinated can still be infected but the impact is not severe.

"Vaccination is a very good preventive measure, especially preventing severity and death. However, transmission can still occur even after being fully vaccinated. Therefore, it is important to implement health protocol", she said.

Widyastuti also found some positive confirmation cases for people who had been vaccinated were in the office cluster. Therefore, he asked employees who work in the office to remain aware of the transmission of the coronavirus.

"We need to emphasize that, even though we have been vaccinated, it does not mean that we are 100 percent free from COVID-19 and carry out activities arbitrarily. Implementation of health protocols must be consistently tightened by offices", she said.

As is known, there were 425 confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 177 offices in DKI Jakarta in the period April 12-18, 2021. Whereas in the previous week, April 5-11, there were 157 cases of COVID-19 confirmation from 78 offices in DKI Jakarta.

"The increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the office cluster is proof that the pandemic has not yet ended", she concluded.