Ministry Of Health: Increase In COVID-19 Cases Still Below WHO Standards

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Mohammad Syahril stated that the increase in COVID-19 cases in the country was still under control or below the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"The standard figures provided by WHO are still below all standards," said Syahril, quoted by Antara, Friday, June 10.

He stated that Indonesia's positivity rate was 1.15 percent, still below the WHO standard, which is five percent.

Then, he said, data on transmission of community cases in Indonesia is also still low, at 1.03 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per week. That figure is less than 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per week.

Then, there are 0.11 per 100,000 inhabitants who undergo hospitalization per week, also still below the WHO set of five hospitalizations per 100,000 population per week.

The death rate in Indonesia is 0.01 per 100,000 population per week, which is still below the WHO standard, which is less than one death per 100,000 population per week.

"This figure shows that although there is an increase in post-Eid cases, we are still below the standard," he said.

Therefore, Syahril asked the public not to panic even though the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 subvariants appeared domestically.

He said the BA.4 and BA.5 variants did not cause bad symptoms when infecting, and even tended to be asymptomatic.

"We don't need to panic, even though there are currently an increase in cases, because the symptoms are mild, there are even no symptoms," he said.