Although COVID-19 Cases Have Decreased, WHO Reminds 'Don't Be Arrogant'

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JAKARTA - The World Health Organization's (WHO) COVID-19 Technical Head, Maria Van Kerkhove on Friday said countries must remain vigilant about COVID-19. Even though the country is experiencing a decline in corona virus cases.

"What we don't want to see is a situation where you go from a lockdown to control (the virus) to another lockdown," he said during a virtual conference in Geneva, quoted by Antara, Saturday, November 28.

Nearly 61 million people worldwide have reportedly been infected with the coronavirus and 1.4 million more have died from it, according to a Reuters tally.

"This is our strength to keep transmission low. We saw dozens of countries show us that (the outbreak) is controllable and still under control," he said.

In Indonesia alone, the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released 5,828 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday, November 27 yesterday. That is a new record in the country, where previously, a new record case occurred on November 25 with an additional 5,534 cases.

"The total accumulated positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia reached 522,581 people," data quoted from the Ministry of Health were quoted as saying.

Today's cases increased by 3,807, so that a total of 437,456 people recovered. Then, the confirmed positive cases that died increased by 169 people and a total of 16,521 people.

The province with the most new cases is in DKI Jakarta with 1,436 new cases and a total of 132,961 cases. DKI Jakarta is also the province with the most accumulated cases in Indonesia.

Followed by Central Java which has 963 new cases with a total of 51,843 cases. West Java has 699 new cases and a total of 51,181 cases. Then, East Java has 428 new cases and a total of 60,618 cases.