Update On COVID-19 As Of April 27: 4 Congenital Diseases That Cause COVID-19 Patients To Die

Government spokesman for the handling of COVID-19, Achmad Yurianto (Yuri) (Photo: BNPB documentation)

JAKARTA - Government spokesman for the handling of COVID-19 Achmad Yurianto (Yuri) explained the progress of the case as of Monday, April 27 at 12.00 WIB. There were an additional 214 confirmed positive cases today. The total number of positive patients to date is 9,096 cases.

Even so, there was good news received. The number of recovered cases has outperformed the death cases. There were an additional 44 patients recovered, bringing the total to 1,151 patients. Meanwhile, 22 patients died, bringing it to 765 patients.

Yuri revealed that the highest factor that causes patients to die is hypertension congenital disease. Followed by diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease, both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

"This is a comorbid factor and causes our mortality rate to be quite high," Yuri said in a press conference at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Monday, April 27.

Then, additional numbers also occurred in patient data under surveillance (PDP) with a total of 19,987 people. Meanwhile, cases of people under monitoring (ODP) increased to 210,199.

The test of saliva specimens (swab) or Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has been carried out as many as 75,000 examinations. The number of cases examined was 59,000 people.

As a result of contact tracing or tracing of COVID-19 contact cases from pre-determined positive cases in more than 58 laboratories.

Then, the government will gradually produce reagents or devices for the benefit of testing COVID-19 specimens. To date, more than 436,000 PCR reagents have been distributed throughout Indonesia.

"This is the key that we can carry out tests to reach more than 10,000 PCR examinations every day throughout Indonesia, in the context of real time PCR tests that use swabs from the nose and throat," he said.

Furthermore, there are more than 1,000 hospitals, both government hospitals, private hospitals, TNI-Polri hospitals in dealing with corona virus patients.

"The total bed capacity is also more than 10,000 designated for COVID-19. Currently the estimate is still occupied by around 8,000 patients. This means that in fact, the capacity is still very adequate for that," he added.