Airlangga Wants, Covid-19 Patient Bed Availability In Sumatra Is Highest

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the National Economic Acceleration and Recovery Committee (KCP-PEN) Airlangga Hartato called the availability of COVID-19 patient beds nationally relatively low on average.

However, a number of provinces on the island of Sumatra have a higher level of availability or bed occupation rate (BOR) than provinces on other islands.

"If we look nationally, BOR is relatively low, which is 29 percent. However, some of the relatively high ones are in Sumatra," Airlangga said in a Youtube broadcast of the Presidential Secretariat, Monday, May 17.

The details, BOR in North Sumatra 56 percent, Riau 50 percent, Riau Islands 49 percent, West Sumatra 49 percent, South Sumatra 47 percent, Bangka Belitung 45 percent, Jambi 43 percent, Lampung 38 percent, and Bengkulu 34 percent.

In addition, Airlangga also explained that there are 15 provinces that have increased cases of COVID-19. namely Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, Bangka Belitung, DKI, Maluku, Banten, NTB, North Maluku, Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, and South Sulawesi.

Airlangga notes the islands of Sumatra and Java. Because, there are 440,000 people who move from Java to Sumatra during the Eid al-Fitr ban. He worries about the transmission of corona virus from people who move back and forth between Sumatra and Java.

"If we look compared to the first week of April, weekly cases on the island of Sumatra there is an increasing trend and also of course can monitor the mobility of the population after Eid al-Fitr from Sumatra to Java," he said.

"Now this is what certainly in the next two weeks we monitor and hopefully not cause a rise in cases," he added.