Jakarta Transitional PSBB Is Extended To January 3

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan extended the transitional PSBB period by 14 days until January 3, 2021. DKI still needs restrictions, because the COVID-19 case in Jakarta has not yet sloped.

Head of the DKI Health Service, Widyastuti said, the transitional PSBB period will focus on the potential spike in COVID-19 cases after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Also, the mobility of residents returning to Jakarta after the 2020 Pilkada.

"The governor emphasized that the focus of the Jakarta Provincial Government on the extension of the PSBB for the transition period this time is more on controlling population mobility which has the potential for a spike in cases," Widyastuti said in his statement, Monday, December 21.

There are three indicators that caused Anies to decide to extend the transitional PSBB period. First, the percentage increase in total positive confirmed cases shows an upward trend over the past four weeks.

As of December 20, 2020, positive confirmed cases in Jakarta reached 163,111, an increase of 13.3 percent compared to the previous two weeks from 143,961 cases on December 6.

"We note that a significant increase in the percentage of confirmed positive cases began in mid-November and is now stable at 13 percent," he said.

Second, there has been an increase in the use of daily isolation beds (inpatient rooms) and ICU rooms at 98 COVID-19 Referral Hospitals in DKI Jakarta over the past month.

As of December 20, out of 6,663 isolation beds, 5,691 patients were now occupied, meaning the capacity had reached 85 percent. Likewise, the condition of the ICU room where the ICU bed was filled with 722 out of 907 so that the percentage was 80 percent.

In the future, the DKI Provincial Government will increase the capacity of isolation beds and ICUs. The target is that there will be 7,171 isolation beds and 1,020 ICU beds at the Jakarta COVID-19 Reference Hospital.

"Increasing the capacity of this facility is also accompanied by an increase in the quantity and quality of health personnel," said Widyastuti.

Third, the effective reproductive value (Rt), which is an indication of the level of transmission in the community, still shows a score of 1.06 as of December 19. In fact, according to Widyastuti, the Rt value must be below 1 so that the COVID-19 outbreak is well controlled.

"If we look at the indicators from BNPB, there is a risk transition from being high before, where our score in the previous week was 1.8975 to 1.8025 this week, which was a result of the increase in positive cases and positive cases treated at home. sick, "he said.