The Wave Of COVID-19 Cases In India, The Task Force Asks The Public To Be Careful So That Indonesia Does Not Experience The Same Thing

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, Wiku Adisasmito, said that there is an increase in cases in India and Turkey today. Wiku said that this unfavorable development was unfortunate.

"Considering that the world has been facing this pandemic for one year. In fact, the struggle to deal with this virus is still not over," Wiku said in the Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Thursday, April 22.

Over the past two months, COVID-19 cases in India have seen a very sharp spike. The graph shows, initially India has managed to keep its positive cases from continuing to decline and remain at a low stable rate.

However, since mid-February until today, continued Wiku, the number of positive cases in India has jumped very sharply.

"The cases in India from previously only around 9,000 new cases to more than 300,000 new cases per day. This means that the increase has reached more than 30 times," said Wiku.

Meanwhile in Turkey, daily positive cases also experienced a sharp increase. In January, Turkey managed to keep the daily positive cases at 5000 new cases.

However, this number continued to increase sharply until April until it experienced the addition of more than 60,000 new cases per day or an increase of 12 times.

One more country that is of concern, namely Brazil. For six months, the daily positive case rate in Brazil has tended to show no improvement since 6 months ago, namely since October 2020.

"During October 2020 to April 2021, the development of positive cases in Brazil was still around 50,000 to 70,000 new cases every day," said Wiku.

Wiku said that the trend of global case developments is important for us to pay attention to as a reflection of efforts to deal with COVID-19 in Indonesia.

"If Indonesia is not careful and disciplined in implementing the Health protocol, it is possible that we could experience a significant increase in cases and of course have the potential to be fatal," he explained.