JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Handling Task Force reported the addition of 114 COVID-19 cases on the day the pandemic status was announced to be revoked by President Joko Widodo, Wednesday, June 21.
However, today's positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 were less than yesterday's addition of 129 cases on Tuesday, June 20.
In total, there have been 6,811,444 confirmed cases since March 2020.
Furthermore, the recovery rate today increased by 214 people, bringing the total to 6,640,216 people.
Meanwhile, five more people died from COVID-19. Thus, the total number of people who died became 161,853 people.
The Task Force also reported that the achievement of vaccination from the first primary to the second booster had increased daily. The first primary vaccination increased by 187 doses, bringing the total number of recipients of the first dose of vaccine to 203,859,914.
The second dose of primary vaccination increased by 297, bringing the total to 174,919,968 people. The first booster vaccination or the third dose increased by 1,417 people (69,002,090), and the fourth dose/second booster vaccination increased by 2,351 people (3,317,865).
President Jokowi announced the lifting of the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, which then began the COVID-19 endemic period.
"After more than three years of fighting together against the COVID-19 pandemic, since today, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, the government has decided to revoke the status of the pandemic and we are starting to enter an endemic period," Jokowi said in a press statement at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday, June 21.
The decision, said Jokowi, was taken by the government by considering the number of daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 which was close to nil.
President Jokowi said the survey results showed that 99 percent of Indonesians already have COVID-19 antibodies.
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