16 Percent Of Jakarta's New COVID-19 Cases Today Infect Children

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JAKARTA - Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, said that there was an increasing trend of active positive cases in children under the age of 18 at this time.

Today, Jakarta recorded the addition of 4,144 positive cases. A total of 661 cases or 16 percent were children aged 0 to 18 years.

"A total of 144 cases of which are children under five. For this reason, we remind residents to avoid leaving their homes with children," Dwi said in his statement, Thursday, June 17.

Today, the DKI Provincial Government has also decided to stop the limited face-to-face learning (PTM) trial in hundreds of schools. PTM has been running since last June 8.

Meanwhile, 4,144 new cases today are the second-highest during the pandemic. Previously, the highest new cases occurred on February 7 with 4,213 cases.

Therefore, we remind everyone not to underestimate COVID-19. Overcoming this pandemic requires working together. We urge the public to continue to be vigilant against the increasingly rapid transmission of COVID-19 and always apply 5M wherever and whenever", said Dwi.

In detail, today there were 5 additional positive cases in the Thousand Islands, West Jakarta 824 cases, Central Jakarta 490 cases, South Jakarta 932 cases, East Jakarta 1,370 cases, and North Jakarta 523 cases.

The districts with the highest number of cases include Cengkareng with 205 cases, Duren Sawit with 189 cases, Cipayung with 177 cases, and Jagakarsa with 172 cases.

Meanwhile, the total number of confirmed cases in Jakarta to date is 458,815 cases. Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 428,487 people were declared cured, and a total of 7,717 people died with a mortality rate of 1.7 percent, while Indonesia's death rate was 2.8 percent.

Dwi continued, the number of active cases in Jakarta today increased by 2,300 cases, so the number of active cases to date is 22,611 people who are still being treated or isolated.

"Of the number of active cases, 25 percent are people without symptoms, 35 percent have mild symptoms, 30 percent have moderate symptoms, and 10 percent have severe and critical symptoms", said Dwi.