The Latest News On PPKM Outside Java And Bali After COVID-19 Slashed And Now It's Back Stretching

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JAKARTA - The implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) outside Java-Bali will be extended from July 5 to August 1, 2022.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto explained this in a limited cabinet meeting evaluating PPKM led by President Joko Widodo at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Monday, July 4, quoted from Antara.

"Especially for PPKM outside Java-Bali, it will be extended from July 5 to August 1, which consists of 385 districts/cities at Level 1, and only one at Level 2, namely in Sorong Regency, West Papua," Airlangga said in a statement. press statement after the limited meeting.

The average also stated that the effective reproduction rate of COVID-19 outside Java-Bali was 1.11 for Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, 1.08 in Sumatra, and 0.99 for Maluku and Papua.

The Coordinating Minister also said that Java-Bali still represented the majority or 95 percent of the national daily cases as of July 3.

"In terms of national 1,614 cases, Java-Bali still represents the majority or 95 percent, namely 1,579 cases, while outside Java-Bali 35 cases or 4.07 percent," he said.

The report also provides a 7-day moving average of Indonesia's COVID-19 cases, which is relatively low compared to several countries in the world.

"United States still have 16,034, then Australia with 32,116, India with 16,065, Singapore with 8,266, Malaysia with 2,384, Thailand with 2,278 and Indonesia with 1,138. This is a moving average," said the Coordinating Minister.

With the number of daily cases increasing at 1,614 as of July 3 yesterday, the Coordinating Minister ensured that the figure was still below the positivity rate threshold set by the WHO, namely 5 percent.

According to data from the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 as of Sunday (3/7), the daily increase brought the total number of positive confirmed COVID-19 cases since March 2020 to 6,093,917 people.

Nationally, the daily cure rate is 1,606 people, bringing the total to 5,920,249, and the total number of patients who died from COVID-19 has reached 156,749.

The COVID-19 Task Force also recorded the number of active cases of COVID-19 sufferers who were still undergoing treatment and self-isolation as of Sunday (3/7) as many as 16,919 active cases.