COVID-19 Soared Drastically In Depok, 2 Weeks Ago 0-5 Cases But Now Reaches One Thousand Patients

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DEPOK - The Depok City COVID-19 Task Force in West Java Province cited the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of the Omicron coronavirus as the main cause of the spike in daily cases of COVID-19 which in the last few days occurred in its area.

"Seeing the very high increase in cases in a very short time, more than five times, it can be ascertained that the Omicron variant factor is the main cause of the fairly high increase in cases," said Depok City COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Dadang Wihana, quoted by Antara. Between, Wednesday, February 9th.

The daily number of COVID-19 cases in Depok City recently exceeded 1,000, higher than the daily number of cases during the peak period of transmission of the Delta variant of the corona virus in June to July 2021.

"Looking at the very sharp graph, it shows that it is indeed the Omicron variant (the cause). Imagine, two weeks ago we had zero to 5 cases, now we have thousands of increases, of which 1,800 on February 4 was the highest during the pandemic," he said.

However, currently there are six cases of Omicron infection detected in Depok City.

"For Omicron, the data given to us were only six cases. Only for the data on how many were exposed to Omicron, the samples were sent to the Ministry of Health, only the Ministry of Health has that data," he said.

According to Depok City Government data as of Tuesday, February 8, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in Depok City since the beginning of the pandemic until now has a total of 122,094 cases with 104,267 patients who have recovered and 2,180 patients who died.

There are 15,646 COVID-19 patients who are still undergoing treatment and quarantine in Depok City.