Jakarta Has Exceeded WHO's COVID-19 Testing Standards

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Province is said to have succeeded in increasing the capacity of the laboratory for examining samples of COVID-19 cases. Jakarta has also succeeded in meeting the standards of the World Health Organization.

"Even though the number of COVID-19 in DKI Jakarta continues to increase, this is in line with the laboratory examination capacity which continues to be increased and has exceeded the WHO minimum standard of 1: 1,000 population per week," said Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force Wiku Adisasmito in a press conference held. aired on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, September 3.

He explained that up to September 2, as many as 652,021 people in DKI Jakarta had been testing.

Even though it succeeded in meeting WHO standards, the COVID-19 Task Force still asked the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to be careful. This is because DKI Jakarta is one of the four provinces with the highest number of COVID-19 cases.

Currently, the number of active cases in DKI Jakarta is around 21.57 percent of the accumulative cases of 42,041. That means, currently there are still 9,069 people who have not been declared cured of the virus.

The number of cities with the highest cases in DKI Jakarta are South Jakarta, East Jakarta, North Jakarta, and the Thousand Islands. Meanwhile, the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 was in Central Jakarta with 314 cases, East Jakarta 236 cases, West Jakarta 233 cases, South Jakarta 215 cases, and North Jakarta 167 cases.

Meanwhile, the highest number of recovered cases was in Central Jakarta with 7,574 cases, South Jakarta 5,265 cases, North Jakarta 5,061 cases, and West Jakarta 4,806 cases.

Meanwhile, from the risk zone aspect, 5 regencies / cities in DKI Jakarta are still in the red or high risk zone, namely West Jakarta, Central Jakarta, North Jakarta, South Jakarta and East Jakarta and 1 regency / city that is in the yellow or low zone. namely the Thousand Islands.

"The local government of DKI must strictly enforce discipline so that people comply with health protocols. For those who do not need to leave the house, stay at home so that transmission does not occur, which is indicated by the increasing number of cases," he explained.

Previously, the COVID-19 Task Force said there were four provinces that contributed to increasing the number of national cases.

The four provinces in question are DKI Jakarta with the addition of 1,359 cases, East Java with 377 cases, Central Java with 242 cases, and West Java with 238 cases.