DKI Jakarta Becomes The Province With The Highest COVID-19 Death Cases This Week

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, said that DKI Jakarta was the province with the highest increase in the number of COVID-19 deaths this week.

This week, the COVID-19 death toll in the capital city rose by 200 cases compared to last week. DKI recorded that there were 150 funerals at the COVID-19 special TPU on June 22, 180 funerals on June 23, and 132 funerals as of noon today.

"The five provinces that recorded the highest increase in deaths were DKI Jakarta with 200 cases, Central Java with 96 cases, East Java with 79 cases, West Java with 73 cases, and Lampung with 72 cases," Wiku said in a written statement, Thursday. , June 24.

In addition, Jakarta also contributed to the highest weekly increase in positive COVID-19 cases, which increased by 13,022 cases.

After that, there were West Java Province which increased by 6,449 cases, East Java increased by 1,756 cases, Special Region of Yogyakarta which rose by 1,322 cases and Central Java which increased by 1,012 cases.

"Only DIY had a death rate that did not increase sharply so it did not enter the top five highest deaths even though it was included in the highest increase in cases," said Wiku.

On a national scale, the weekly increase in positive cases reached 42 percent from last week. This increase has been going on for five consecutive weeks and was contributed by the provinces on the island of Java with the addition reaching almost double compared to last week.

Unfortunately, said Wiku, the increase in healing was not too significant this week, which was 20.1 percent. "This shows that it is necessary to immediately improve the quality of health services so that deaths can be prevented and recovery can be improved," he said.

Wiku added, the current COVID-19 situation is nearing the peak of the pandemic following the holiday period at the end of last year. The current active cases reached 160.524 while the highest active case was 176.672 on 5 February.

"Therefore, strengthening micro PPKM is the main thing that must be done at this time to suppress the rate of positive cases, especially those concentrated in Java," he added.