The COVID-19 Death Rate In Jakarta Is Low, This Is The Cause

JAKARTA - The death rate due to COVID-19 in DKI Jakarta is low. Based on data, on Thursday 2 September, the number of deaths in the capital city was 10, a decrease compared to the beginning of July 2021, which was 400 people per day.

The DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office (Dinkes) revealed three main factors causing the low death rate due to COVID-19 in the capital city.

"One, because of the availability of health services in hospitals," said Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Jakarta Health Service, Dwi Oktavia, in Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Friday, September 3.

Based on data from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government as of Thursday, September 2, the total number of people who died due to positive confirmation of COVID-19 in the capital city reached 13,312 people or 1.6 percent of the total in Indonesia, 134,356 people.

Furthermore, Dwi explained that in Jakarta, there are 140 COVID-19 referral hospitals with the bed occupancy rate (BOR) currently decreasing to 15 percent as of Wednesday, September 1 after previously in the June-July 2021 period it was above 90 percent.

The total of 8,189 beds was only occupied by 1,211 beds or 15 percent.

In addition to the lower BOR, the occupancy of the intensive care room (ICU) of hospitals in Jakarta also fell to 31 percent with occupancy reaching 414 beds out of a total of 1,349 beds prepared.

"We are in tandem with efforts to break the chain but the capacity to treat COVID patients, we are also trying to balance the number of patients, projected cases with prepared beds. Hospital cooperation is very good in Jakarta so that people can be handled more quickly," he added.

Second, he continued, the capacity for COVID-19 examination in Jakarta is also relatively better and swab test samples are taken by the Puskesmas, although the examination remains in the laboratory.

It is recorded that in Jakarta there are 290 sub-district health centers and 44 sub-district health centers that are involved in COVID-19 examinations.

Meanwhile, the ability to test swab tests based on "polymerase chain reaction" (PCR) was also improved, which in the past week reached more than 80,000 tests, or eight times the world health organization's (WHO) target of 10,650 PCR tests in one week.

This will speed up efforts to deal with residents who are exposed to COVID-19.

Then, the third is the incessant vaccination carried out for residents aged 12 years and over.

As of Wednesday, September 2, the number of residents in DKI who had been vaccinated with the first dose reached 9.77 million or 109.3 percent of the target of 8.94 million residents.

Around 40 percent of them are residents with non-DKI Jakarta ID cards, so the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government added that the vaccination target was to reach 11 million people.

Meanwhile, the number of residents in DKI who have received two complete vaccinations has reached 5.89 million or close to 66 percent.

"Vaccination also greatly affects people who have been fully vaccinated, the chance (of illness) becomes more severe is small, the chance of dying is also lower," he added.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered people reached 832,130 people with a cure rate of 97.7 percent in Jakarta.