Positivity Rate Of COVID-19 This Week Soars To 18.1 Percent, Task Force: Concerning

COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito (Photo: BNPB doc)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, Wiku Adisasmito, said that there was an increase in the positivity rate of COVID-19 in the past week. This is a concern.

In the last week, the positive results of the number of specimens examined reached 18.1 percent. That means, there were 18 people who tested positive out of 100 people who were tested for PCR.

"This figure is higher than the previous week which only reached 13.81 percent. This figure is very worrying and should be of concern to all of us," Wiku said in a Youtube broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat, Tuesday, December 15.

Wiku said, the high positivity rate reflected a lot of transmission of the corona virus that occurred in the community. Wiku asks the public to seriously and discipline comply with health protocols.

Wiku also said that currently there is a decreasing trend in health protocol compliance, especially in big cities and other supporting areas such as Jabodetabek.

"Don't be in the least bit careless. If we are careless, then we have the opportunity to directly infect and infect those closest to us. Remember, the public must comply with all appeals and directives of law enforcement officials regarding health protocols," he said.

Wiku also reminded the public not to obstruct officers who enforce discipline related to health protocols.

"Be cooperative. Remember, anyone who obstructs efforts to enforce this discipline can be punished in accordance with the applicable regulations," he said.

For information, today there was an increase in positive cases of 6,120, where the current number of active cases is 93,622 or 14.9 percent and the world's active cases is 27.63 percent.

Meanwhile, the number of cumulative cured cases was 516,656 or 82.1 percent, of which 70.14 percent of cured cases in the world. Then, the cumulative number of cases died was 19,111 or 3 percent, where the number of cases died in the world was 2.22 percent.