DKI COVID-19 Bed Occupancy Rises Last Week, Now Above 50 Percent

Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria (DOK VOI/Rizky Aditya)

JAKARTA - The occupancy of isolation beds and the COVID-19 special ICU in DKI Jakarta has increased over the past week. In fact, COVID-19 beds in Jakarta have been added.

Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria said that currently the occupancy rate or bed occupation rate (BOR) for isolation is 3,560 out of a total of 6,694 beds. Meanwhile, ICU beds are occupied by 588 out of a total of 1,076 beds.

"Our BOR for isolation has reached 53 percent. ICU room is 52 percent," said Riza at the DKI DPRD building, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, June 9.

In fact, as of May 31, the isolation beds for COVID-19 patients were 33 percent occupied or occupied by 2,176 out of 6,621 beds. Meanwhile, ICU beds were 36 percent or filled with 362 of 1,014 beds.

Riza said the increase in the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in the capital city must be a common concern. "Even though the implementation of COVID-19 in Jakarta has been quite good and quite a lot, we still ask the public to continue to implement health protocols," he said.

"So, we have to start from their respective homes, families must provide complementary information to each other, remind each other not to go out of the house randomly, make sure the house is clean, keep a distance, and so on," he added

As previously reported, the total number of confirmed cases in Jakarta to date is 438,458 cases. Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 419,109 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 95.6 percent, and a total of 7,499 people died with a death rate of 1.7 percent.

The positivity rate or the percentage of positive cases in the last week in Jakarta was 10.8 percent. WHO sets the standard for the percentage of positive cases not more than 5 percent.