The Government Again Claims The Spread Of COVID-19 In Indonesia Has Decreased

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said that cases of the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia since May 7 have continued to decline, although not drastically.

"The state of the COVID-19 map as of May 7, there is a tendency that the number of cases occurring in Indonesia has decreased, although not too drastically," said Muhadjir in an online press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat account, Friday, May 8.

This is because, he said, the addition of new cases in Indonesia did not reach 500. This is what worries the decline in cases of spread. The government hopes that in the future this case will continue to decline.

"We are grateful because our average case rate is still low and it can be seen that the cases per day are below 500. Meanwhile, the recovery is getting higher, it is closer to 300 per day and the mortality rate is not increasing drastically," he explained.

Even so, Muhadjir agrees that COVID-19 cases in Indonesia are the second highest in the Asean region, behind Singapore. It's just that according to him, this does not need to be exaggerated.

Given that, in the Asean region, Indonesia has a large population compared to any other country, including Singapore.

"When compared with the total population, of course this figure is actually not special because our population is 236 million compared to the Philippines, which is around 110 million, let alone Singapore, which has 6 million people," he said.

Apart from that, until now Indonesia has never experienced an increase in the number of positive patients above 1,400, as in Singapore.

So, based on this fact, the government ensures that the picture of the spread of this virus is not like what happened in Europe and America.

He even said that the conditions that were not extreme had become the reference for the government in making scenarios for handling COVID-19 in the future.

"So everything is sloping and hopefully this will continue and will decrease so that it can speed up the process of handling COVID-19 and dealing with the impact on COVID," he said.