Daily Cases Of COVID-19 Start To Rise, But Outside Java Bali Tends To Slop

PIXABAY ILLUSTRATION

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the national daily COVID-19 cases had increased again a month after Lebaran, but daily cases outside Java-Bali still tended to be sloping.

Coordinating Minister Airlangga said that community transmission in Indonesia has consistently increased, but is still relatively low at 4.68 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, or including level 1 of WHO standard community transmission.

"Meanwhile, transmission to communities outside Java-Bali is still relatively very low at 0.29 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week with hospitalizations and deaths that tend to decrease," he said as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, June 29.

The average daily case in all provinces outside Java-Bali is six people with a positivity rate below 1 percent, so it can be concluded that the COVID-19 situation outside Java-Bali is still very under control.

As of June 28, there were only 61 cases or only 2.81 percent of the national daily cases of 2,167 cases and there was no visible increase in the trend of cases.

This causes active cases outside Java-Bali to be very low, only at 3.81 percent of the total national active cases or 584 cases out of a total of 15,310 cases. The highest cases occurred in North Sumatra Province with eight daily cases and a total of 54 active cases.

"This figure is much lower than in Java-Bali," said Airlangga.

"Overall, the assessment level in 27 provinces outside Java-Bali is still well maintained. Community transmission continues to be low at Level 1 in all provinces outside Java-Bali," he said.

Airlangga detailed that as many as 23 provinces still have limited response capacity as a result of limited testing or tracing. Then one province has a moderate response capacity, namely East Kalimantan Province and three provinces have adequate response capacity, namely the Riau Islands, North Kalimantan and Jambi provinces.

Airlangga reiterated the importance of accelerating booster vaccination or the third dose as well as ensuring the availability and distribution of vaccines and drugs, as well as local governments to strengthen the capacity and function of health facilities (faskes) in the regions.

As of June 28, there are still two provinces where the achievement of the first dose of vaccination is still below 70 percent, namely West Papua and Papua. For the second dose of vaccination, there are still 10 provinces whose achievements are below 70 percent.

Meanwhile, for the third dose of vaccination, there are still 23 provinces whose achievements are below 30 percent. Meanwhile, for the first dose of elderly vaccination, there were seven provinces outside Java-Bali where the achievement was less than 70 percent and the second dose was 11 provinces below 50 percent and four provinces above 70 percent.

"The booster vaccination continues to be accelerated, considering that daily cases and active cases have started to increase which is expected to peak in the next few weeks. We also continue to urge the public to re-discipline themselves in carrying out health protocols," said Airlangga.