Death Cases Due To COVID-19 In Surakarta Still High, City Government Claims Data Delay Effect

Illustration of handling COVID-19 patients in Indonesia. (Antaranews)

SURAKARTA - The number of COVID-19 deaths in the city of Surakarta is still not sloping. From the beginning of the year until Tuesday March 8, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Solo City was 65 cases.

"This is high, some have been vaccinated twice," said Head of the Surakarta City Health Service (DKK) Siti Wahyuningsih in Solo, Central Java, Wednesday, March 9.

His party noted that of the total deaths that occurred, 27.54 percent of them had received two vaccine injections, 27.26 percent received one vaccine injection, and the rest had never received any vaccinations.

Regarding daily death cases, the Surakarta City COVID-19 Task Force noted that the highest death rate occurred on Tuesday, March 8, with the death toll occurring that day as many as 15 cases.

However, he said, the high number of cases was due to delayed data entry. Related to this, Siti admitted that she would evaluate and fix it.

"This is my homework as the person in charge of health. If the hospital does not immediately enter data, there will be a delay. If the data is delayed, the hospital cannot enter death data," he said.

Regarding the data, he said, so far the government has made a new all record (NAR) system. However, this NAR must still be updated administratively.

"If the NAR is not appropriate, the hospital cannot make a claim for the cost of patient care, considering that everything is by the system," he said.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Mayor of Surakarta, Teguh Prakosa, acknowledged that there was a data delay problem. "Yesterday, I directly contacted Mrs. Ning. So, only six of these 15 died yesterday, the rest were due to data delays," he said.