16 COVID-19 Patients In Jakarta Died A Month Last

PIXABAY ILLUSTRATION

Head of the DKI Jakarta Health Office Ani Ruspitawati said as many as 16 COVID-19 patients died during December 2023.

The death of this COVID-19 case, said Ani, appeared over the past month after previously there was no death rate for coronavirus patients in the previous month.

"In December, to this day 16 people have died. The case fatality (death rate of COVID-19 cases) is 0.8 percent to date," Ani told reporters, Wednesday, December 27.

It is recorded that currently there are 517 active cases of COVID-19 in DKI Jakarta. The majority of active cases are self-isolating at home, while the rest are being treated at the hospital.

"As of December 26, the active cases were 517. Of the 517, there were more than 300 isomans, there were around 190 in hospitals," explained Ani.

On average, COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized also have comorbidities or comorbidities

However, Ani guarantees that the capacity of hospital care beds is still quite large.

"We monitor the content is still very far, because we have prepared it from the beginning. Even though the status of the pandemic has been revoked, all hospitals are still ready with special isolation rooms. Likewise, other hospitals are still ready to accept it," explained Ani.

Separately, Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin previously said the situation of COVID-19 cases in the country ahead of the 2023 Christmas and 2024 New Year holidays was not too worrying.

"Especially for the increase in COVID-19, we see that the increase in COVID-19 is almost 2,800 per week. This is still below the WHO level 1," said Budi Gunadi Sadikin at a press conference on Health Sector Preparedness for the Christmas and New Year Holidays, reported by Antara, Friday, December 22.

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the global COVID-19 situation at three levels, level 1 ranges from 20 cases per 100 thousand population per week or the equivalent of 56 thousand cases per week if converted based on the total population of Indonesia.

Level 2 of WHO ranges above 20-50 cases per 100,000 population per week, while level 3 according to WHO occurs when an area reports cases in 50 to less than 150 per 100,000 inhabitants per week.

"We are now 2,800 per week from the limit of around 56,000 per week, meaning that there are still relatively few, but there has not been a significant increase in the last few weeks," he said.