JAKARTA - Team of Experts for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, Dewi Nur Aisyah, said that there was a decrease in the trend in the percentage of active COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, from March to August 2020.
An active case is a condition of a positive confirmed patient who is still undergoing treatment in the hospital or doing independent isolation at home.
"There is a condition in which the percentage of active cases has decreased at the national level since March, April, May, June, July, and August," said Dewi at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Wednesday, September 2.
Based on data held by the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, the average active cases in March was 91.26 percent. Then, the trend of active cases fell in April by 81.57 percent, down again in May by 71.53 percent.
Furthermore, the trend of active cases fell again in June with an average of 57.25 percent, then in July it was 44.02 percent, and in August it was 28.26 percent.
"The lowest percentage of active cases in one day was at 22.7 percent. However, we see an increase in cases in the last few days in August, it has continued to rise again. So that on August 30 it is 23.4 percent," Dewi explained
In addition, the trend in the percentage of COVID-19 deaths has also decreased, but the progress is quite slow. In March, the average case fatality rate was 4.89 percent, up in April by 8.64 percent.
The percentage of deaths fell again in May by an average of 6.68 percent, in June 5.56 percent, July 4.81 percent, and August to 4.47 percent.
"There is a decline, but not too big. We want to pursue the lowest, if possible, no deaths, or at least below the world average. This is our common homework," he said.
The trend of cure percentage has also increased over the last few months. In March, the average cure rate was 3.84 percent, up in April by 9.79 percent.
Meanwhile, the percentage of recovery again increased in May by an average of 21.97 percent, 37.19 percent in June, 49.4 percent in July, and 67.04 percent in August.
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