DKI Finds 998 Families Infected With COVID-19 From Homecoming Cluster

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Province found that there were 988 families who were infected with COVID-19 from the Eid Al-Fitr homecoming cluster this year.

Head of Disease Prevention and Control Division, DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office, Dwi Oktavia admitted that there was an increase in COVID-19 cases after the Eid holiday.

"From the identification of the homecoming cluster from May 21 to June 10, 2021, there were 2.008 positive cases from 988 families", said Dwi in her statement, Thursday, June 10.

Currently, there are 3 neighborhood units (RT) in the red zone or high risk of COVID-19 in Jakarta. There are 23 neighborhoods in the orange zone or moderate risk. This neighborhood is currently undergoing massive contact tracing.

After that, clusters of transmission emerged in the community in a number of sub-districts, namely Cipayung, Cengkareng, Cilincing, Ciracas, Pasar Minggu, Kemayoran, and Pulogadung.

"For this reason, we urge residents to increase vigilance, do not relax the health protocols, because transmission is still happening", he said.

Dwi also revealed that there were quite a lot of new cases added today. 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.

51 percent or 1.070 positive cases of which were the results of tracing the Public health center which the majority carried out in the neighborhood that implementing micro-based community activity restrictions (PPKM), 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 to date is 12.820 people who are still being treated or isolated", said Dwi.

The distribution of 2.096 positive cases today spread across the Thousand Islands 2 cases, West Jakarta 422 cases, Central Jakarta 331 cases, South Jakarta 499 cases, East Jakarta 637 cases, and North Jakarta 205 cases.

"If you look at the addition of cases evenly, there are 43 sub-districts in DKI Jakarta, except for the North Thousand Islands. The 5 districts that contributed the most cases were Cengkareng 109 cases, Cipayung 80 cases, Jagakarsa 80 cases, Duren Sawit 71 cases, and Kebon Jeruk 68 cases", Dwi explained.