The Increase Of COVID-19 Cases In Indonesia Is Above The World's Average
JAKARTA - The recent increase in active cases of COVID-19 has put Indonesia in a bad state. Coronavirus cases in the country have experienced a drastic increase, the highest since the end of January 2021.
The COVID-19 Task Force noted that as of June 19, Indonesia contributed 22.350 active cases of COVID-19 in the last six days. The Task Force regrets that active cases have increased dramatically after declining in February 2021.
"Starting on June 18, Indonesia's active cases have been above the world's average, so now we are at 6.87 percent, the world is only 6.5 percent. While our recovery rate is at 90.38 percent while the world is 91, 33 percent", said the Head of Data and Information Technology of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dewi Nur Aisyah at the Coordination Meeting of the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, Sunday, June 20.
"So if we look at the last 16 days there has been a continuous increase from June 3 to June 19 with an increase of 41.300 active cases or an increase of 43.7 percent", she continued.
Dewi explained that active cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia currently have reached 135 thousand from the original figure of 94 thousand. Therefore, she asked that this matter must be a common concern to look back at the strategy for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
"From 94.000, currently our active cases have reached 135 thousand and this is a condition that we must all understand, this is the red light", she explained.
From the data compiled by the COVID-19 Task Force, Dewi said that there were only 11 provinces that recorded a decrease in active cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile, 23 other provinces recorded an increase in active COVID-19 cases.
During the past month, starting from May 31, 2021, there were 7 provinces that recorded the highest spike in active COVID-19 cases in Indonesia, including DKI Jakarta.
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Here are the details:
DKI Jakarta: added 19.602 cases, to 27.301. (up 255 percent)
Central Java: added 17.166 cases, to 24.026. (up 251.26 percent)
West Java: added 8.322 cases, to 27.782. (up 43 percent)
DI Yogyakarta: added 2.837 cases, to 4.917. (up 136 percent)
Banten: added 1.719 cases, to 3.115. (up 123 percent)
East Java: added 3.133 cases, to 4.544. (up 222 percent)
West Kalimantan: added 278 cases, to 922. (up 43 percent).
The COVID-19 Task Force also announced that the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Indonesia had increased again by 13.737 people as of Sunday, June 20.
Thus, the total accumulated COVID-19 cases in Indonesia since the pandemic began amounted to 1.989.909 people. This number is the highest since January 2021.
From this number, an additional 371 people died, bringing the total to 54.662 people died.
Then, there were an additional 6.385 people who recovered, bringing the total to 1.792.528 others were declared cured. While active cases rose by 6.981 to 142.719 people, with the number of suspects reaching 121.685 people.
This figure was obtained from the results of the examination of 132.215 specimens from 73.805 people examined yesterday.
The total specimens that have been examined since the first case of COVID-19 until Sunday, June 20, are 18.649.618 specimens from 12.335.197 individuals. It has been recorded that 34 provinces and 510 regencies/cities have been infected with the COVID-19 virus.