COVID-19 Has Gone Mad Outside Java-Bali, Active Cases Have Increased By 200 Percent
JAKARTA - The initiator of Pandemic Talks, Firdza Radiany, said that the government's implementation of the Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) had succeeded in suppressing COVID-19 cases in Java-Bali. However, this is actually the opposite of the conditions that exist outside the two islands.
He said active cases outside Java-Bali currently increased to 216.74 percent. Meanwhile, in Java-Bali active cases have now decreased to around 91.36 percent.
"For active cases, the growth in active cases outside Java-Bali is insane. Twice, 200 percent. Meanwhile, in Java-Bali, it is decreasing", said Firdza in an online discussion entitled Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Emergency PPKM in Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic which aired on ILUNI UI's YouTube, Saturday, August 7th.
In addition to active cases, the percentage of deaths from COVID-19 patients has also increased outside Java-Bali. If in Java-Bali the death rate increased by 239 percent outside these two islands, the percentage was higher.
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"Deaths in Java have increased by 239 percent. It turns out that the trend of deaths outside Java-Bali is higher than Java-Bali by 283.4 percent. Although nominally smaller, this is a larger percentage", said Firdza.
With the data he presented, he said that COVID-19 had indeed succeeded in being sent down in Java-Bali. "However, at the same time the virus is increasingly spreading outside Java-Bali", he said.
Similarly, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IX Commission, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, also said that the trend of increasing positive cases of COVID-19 also occurred outside Java-Bali. So he asked the government to pay more attention to it.
"Although the trend cannot be said to continue to decline, it is relatively under control in Java-Bali, although outside Java-Bali there is an increase in positive cases", said Melki.
"This is something we need to pay attention to because each region has a different approach", he concluded.