Government Claims: Indonesia's Cured Case Percentage Of COVID-19 Is Higher Than The World

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Task Force (Satgas) Wiku Adisasmito said that the percentage of Indonesia's recovery was higher than the world average. Even so, the difference was not very significant.

"The percentage of recovery on August 19 nationally is 68.6 percent and this is higher than the world figure, namely 67.7 percent," Wiku said in a broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat Youtube account, Thursday, August 20.

In fact, if we refer to the data per province, there are at least 15 provinces that have a recovery percentage above the world average. For example, the Bangka Belitung Islands with 93.06 percent and the lowest was Banten with 68.64 percent.

Then for the percentage of deaths, said Wiku, Indonesia still does not meet the world average standard of 3.5 percent. However, if you use data per region, there are 21 provinces whose death cases are below the world figure.

Based on data, the lowest case of death occurred in East Nusa Tenggara with 0.61 percent. Then the highest is North Maluku with 3.38 percent.

"Then we repeat the percentage of death back again, nationally we are 4.4% on this date and the world is 3.5%. There are 21 provinces with deaths below the world average," said Wiku.

Furthermore, Wiku also mentioned that active cases in Indonesia as of August 20 were only 27.2 percent. This percentage is lower than the world average of 28.7 percent.

Active cases are the number of positive cases currently in independent care or isolation divided by the cumulative number of cases in their respective regions.

"The number of active cases in Indonesia is currently at 40,119, while the cumulative number of cases is 147,211 people," said Wiku.