Luhut: COVID-19 In 43 Regencies/cities In Java-Bali Has Increased In The Last Week, Including Jakarta

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan/DOK VOI

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that currently there are 43 regencies/cities in Java-Bali that have experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week.

This he conveyed in a statement related to the results of the limited meeting of the PPKM evaluation chaired by President Joko Widodo.

"There is a trend of increasing cases in Java-Bali, mainly in 43 regencies/cities out of 128 regencies/cities or 33.6 percent in the last 7 days," Luhut said in a Youtube video broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat, Monday, November 8.

Luhut said that one of the provinces where cases were increasing was in DKI Jakarta, namely in four administrative cities in the capital city.

"In Jakarta, in North, East, West, South Jakarta, almost all of the trends have gone up," said Luhut.

Therefore, the central government, continued Luhut, will immediately gather the 43 regencies/cities in Java-Bali to immediately intervene in order to contain the trend of increasing cases.

"So, I beg you all to watch this carefully," said Luhut.

Although there is a trend of increasing cases, Luhut said the implementation of PPKM in Java-Bali in general remains under control. This can be seen from the confirmed cases in Java-Bali which continued to decline from its peak to 99 percent from the peak of cases on July 15 last.

In addition, the Rt (case reproduction number) of Indonesia and Java-Bali are also still below 1, indicating that the COVID-19 pandemic is under control. Rt in Java remained at 0.93 while in Bali it was at 0.97.

In addition, Luhut said President Jokowi conveyed the need for public vigilance while maintaining the implementation of health protocols.

"In the meeting chaired by the President this afternoon, he said that we must be very careful and learn from the experiences of countries in Europe which experienced a large daily spike in cases due to people's negligence in implementing health protocols," he concluded.