Surabaya Becomes The Area Of The Highest COVID-19 Death Cases

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JAKARTA - The Team of Experts for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dewi Nur Aisyah, said that the city of Surabaya is the area with the highest death rate due to COVID-19 out of 512 districts / cities in Indonesia.

This data was disclosed based on the results of the weekly analysis of the COVID-19 Task Force Expert Team. Data on the progress of COVID-19 which was analyzed up to August 16.

"The first regency / city with the highest mortality rate is Surabaya. The death rate from all positive cases is 8.62 percent," said Dewi in a discussion at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Wednesday, August 19.

Although the accumulative mortality rate is high, there has been a downward trend in mortality in the last 3 weeks. Then, the recovery rate in the city of Surabaya has also increased by 74.68 percent.

Meanwhile, there are only 16.70 percent of active cases in Surabaya. Active cases in this case are people confirmed positive for COVID-19 who are still undergoing treatment or independent isolation at home.

"Why is the mortality rate high? This mostly comes from the beginning, until the intervention adds to the referral hospital. Finally, the recovery in the city of Surabaya has also increased quite sharply in the last few weeks," said Dewi.

After Surabaya, the other regions with the highest mortality rates were Semarang City with a death rate of 6.27 percent, Banjarmasin City with 5.39 percent, Palembang City with 4.94 percent.

Then, Medan City with a death rate of 4.32 percent, Makassar City with 4.02 percent, Central Jakarta with 3.29 percent, Depok City with 3.21 percent, Jayapura City with 1.32 percent, and Denpasar City with 1. 03 percent.