Yogyakarta Beware Of COVID-19 Cases That Start Crawling

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JAKARTA - The Yogyakarta City COVID-19 Handling Task Force is increasing its vigilance because the graph of active cases in the city in early November was creeping up even though it was considered still under control.

"In early November, in terms of case growth, there was indeed a slight increase compared to September and October, where the graphs tended to fall", said Heroe Poerwadi, Daily Chair of the Yogyakarta COVID-19 Handling Task Force, quoted by Antara, Friday, November 5.

According to him, the growth of cases in early November again touched the number of more than five cases per day with fewer patients recovering or completing self-isolation.

Meanwhile, in September and October, the number of new cases was less than the number of patients who recovered or finished self-isolation, so the graph of active cases also tends to fall.

“At the end of October, the number of new cases was below five cases per day. However, in early November it rose to more than five", continued Heroe.

The increase in active cases in the city of Yogyakarta can also be seen from the number of patients undergoing treatment, both in hospitals, shelters, and self-isolation in the last five days, from 43 patients to 55 patients.

The epidemiological study in early November continued Heroe, also showed that there was one sub-district that had been upgraded to the orange zone. "Previously, no village was included in the orange zone", he said.

However, the number of sub-districts in the green zone has increased from before, from 14 sub-districts to 22 sub-districts and 22 other urban villages are in the yellow zone.

“The handling at the micro PPKM Command Post also shows the addition of RTs (Neighborhood Association) that have active cases. The previous week 17 RTs are now 19 RTs", added Heroe.

Heroe said the positive confirmed cases found in the city of Yogyakarta usually came from close patient contacts, but many patients did not know the origin of the infection.

"Alhamdulillah, until now there has been no finding of case clusters. Hopefully not found", he said.

Therefore, Heroe hopes that the community will continue to carry out health protocols properly in all their activities, if they do not have very urgent needs, it is better to postpone their trips, especially outside the city.

"We are trying our best to be able to suppress the growth of cases so that it does not continue to grow, especially in the last few weeks tourism in Yogyakarta is very crowded", he said.