Percentage Of National Active COVID-19 Cases Below World Average

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JAKARTA - Member of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Expert Team Dewi Nur Aisyah said that the current percentage of active COVID-19 cases is below the world average.

Active cases are people who have been confirmed positive and are still undergoing treatment or isolation, either independent isolation or controlled isolation, and have not been declared cured or dead.

"The average active cases in Indonesia as of October 11 was 19.17 percent. If we look, the world's active cases averaged 22.08 percent," Dewi said in a discussion at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Wednesday, October 14.

Dewi continued, in general the trend of the percentage of active national cases has decreased. Based on data on active cases in March, the average active case was 91.26 percent. Then, active cases decreased in April with an average of 81.57 percent, then 71.53 percent in May.

Then, the percentage of active cases again decreased to 57.25 percent in June, 44.02 percent in July, 28.26 percent in August, 23.74 percent in September, and the average active cases during October by 20.36 percent.

"Indeed, in terms of proportion, active cases have continued to decline from March to October. Hopefully, there will be no more, meaning that active cases continue to decline and then many recover," said Dewi.

However, in the case of the downward trend in cases during the eight months of the pandemic, there were several periods where active cases had increased. Such as the increase in the percentage of active cases at the end of June towards the beginning of July, which gradually declined again.

"Active cases are not always down, it can go up when there is a very high increase in cases. For example in early July and early September," explained Dewi.