COVID-19 In DKI Jakarta Today Soars Through 2,096 New Cases

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Province recorded a fairly high addition of COVID-19 cases today. Based on data from the DKI Health Office as of June 10, 2021, there were 2,096 positive cases from the examination of 15,775 specimens.

This figure has increased from new cases as of June 8 as 755 cases and as of June 9 as many as 1,376 cases.

Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, said that 51 percent or 1,070 of the positive cases were the results of tracing the Puskesmas, the majority of which were carried out in RT PPKM Mikro, while 1,026 positive cases were found in health facilities.

"The number of active cases in Jakarta today increased by 970 cases, so the number of active cases as of today is 12,820 people who are still being treated or isolated", said Dwi, Thursday, June 10.

Meanwhile, the total number of confirmed cases in Jakarta to date is 440,554 cases. Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 420,211 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 95.4 percent.

Then there were a total of 7,523 people who died with a mortality rate of 1.7 percent, while Indonesia's death rate was 2.8 percent.

The positivity rate or the percentage of positive cases from specimens examined in the past week in Jakarta was 12.4 percent, while the percentage of positive cases in total was 10.8 percent. This figure exceeds the WHO standard with a positivity rate of not more than 5 percent.

While the WHO test target is 1,000 people who are tested by PCR per million population per week. Meanwhile, the WHO target for Jakarta is a minimum of 10,645 people being tested per week.

"This target has been exceeded by Jakarta for some time. In the past week, 70,086 people were tested by PCR. Meanwhile, the total PCR tests for DKI Jakarta have now reached 383,092 per million population", explained Dwi.

Regarding vaccination, currently, DKI Jakarta has vaccinated the first dose of 91 percent and the second dose of 62 percent in stages 1 and 2 with a target of 3,000,689 health workers, the elderly, and public service workers.

Meanwhile, the first dose of the Gotong Royong vaccination for private employees in Jakarta has been carried out to 35,613 people.