18 Cities Free Of New COVID-19 Cases In Indonesia

Chairperson of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Doni Monardo

JAKARTA - The government announced that the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia continues to increase. Most recently, the number of patients who tested positive increased by 395 people. Thus, the total accumulation of positive patients has now reached 11,587 people.

It's just that, based on data from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), 18 out of 34 provinces in Indonesia on Monday, May 4 did not record an increase in the number of positive cases of COVID-19 and Yogyakarta became a province that was free from the addition of new cases in Java.

The 18 provinces are Aceh, Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), Jambi, Riau Islands, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sumatra, North Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi.

Furthermore, other provinces are Central Sulawesi, North Maluku, Maluku, West Papua, Papua, West Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, and Gorontalo.

Meanwhile, the highest cure rate for COVID-19 patients occurred in DKI Jakarta. The total number of patients recovered reached 632 people and was followed by South Sulawesi.

"Then South Sulawesi 199, East Java 178, West Java 159, Bali 159 of the total is 1,954 people," said Spokesperson for COVID-19 Handling Achmad Yurianto in his press conference, Monday, May 4.

Patients, said Yuri, can be declared cured if they carry out laboratory tests and the results are negative twice. In addition, this recovery is also in line with the patient's no more clinical complaints.

As previously reported, the Chairperson of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19, Doni Monardo, reminded the public not to go back to their hometowns for whatever reason. This prohibition, he said, is intended so that there is no more spread in areas that are free from COVID-19.

"There are several provinces with zero cases. Do not let travelers have new problems," Doni said in a press conference after a limited meeting broadcast on the Cabinet Secretariat YouTube account, Monday, May 4.

He said, although the ban had been implemented since April 24, many people were still desperate to go home. So he asked the whole community to resist the urge to go home.

Moreover, there are currently insufficient pulmonary specialist doctors in the region, so it is feared that it will cause new problems in the area.

"The number of our pulmonary doctors is 1,973 people. This means that one pulmonary doctor must serve 1.2 million Indonesian citizens. So that we allow ourselves to be exposed and our environment to be exposed, in that area there are no pulmonary doctors," he said.