This Is The Reason The DKI Provincial Government Extends The PSBB When The COVID-19 Case Is Claimed To Start To Slow Down

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has officially extended the period of strict large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) until 11 October. In fact, the development of the COVID-19 case in DKI is claimed to have slowed down.

Currently, the cure rate for COVID-19 has increased to 78.2 percent. Then, the mortality rate has also decreased to 2.5 percent.

Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria said the reason for the extension of the PSBB when the case had slowed down was because the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government still wanted to carry out a massive COVID-19 examination.

"After 12 days of PSBB, the case has started to slow down. We are taking ways to reduce this problem by increasing the number of tests, so that we can quickly identify the problem," said Riza at the City Hall of DKI, Central Jakarta, Friday, September 25.

Riza said, with increased efforts to track cases (tracing) to testing, the increase in cases of COVID-19 while limiting the mobility of residents will ramp up faster.

"We want to know the point of spread quickly, immediately, so that we can take the best steps, the handling is good," said Riza.

Along with the increase in testing, Riza also said that the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will add 13 regional public hospitals, which we refer to as a special hospital for COVID-19.

"We will also add 26 private hospitals that we will involve as COVID-19 referral hospitals," said the Gerindra Party politician.

To support the increase in treatment capacity and isolation beds for COVID-19, the DKI Provincial Government has also opened job vacancies for health workers to improve handling of COVID-19 for 8 types of work. Previously, DKI had recruited 1,800 new medical personnel in the first batch.

For information, DKI Governor Anies Baswedan said that the Chairman of the Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery (PEN) Committee Airlangga Hartato blessed DKI to extend the PSBB period.

In fact, Anies said that currently there are signs of lowering positive cases and active cases in Jakarta, along with reduced mobility of residents when the PSBB was tightened.

In the first 12 days of September, the increase in active cases was 49 percent or 3,864 cases. During the PSBB period, namely the following 12 days, an increase in the number of active cases still occurred, but it decreased to 12 percent or 1,453 cases.

"The number of active cases is still increasing and needs attention, especially regarding the capacity of health facilities. What also needs to be of particular concern is the death rate which is still increasing, although it shows early signs of sloping where the death rate is currently at 2.5 percent," said Anies. .