Highest Record During A Pandemic, New Cases Of COVID-19 In Jakarta Today 4,737

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta recorded a record addition of new cases of COVID-19 today. New cases of 4,737 are the most daily cases during the pandemic.

"24,812 PCR tests were carried out. Of these tests, 17,368 people were tested by PCR today to diagnose new cases with 4,737 positive results and 12,631 negative results", said the Head of Disease Prevention and Control of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, in her statement, Friday, June 18.

The number of active cases in Jakarta increased by 2,173 cases, so the number of active cases to date is 24,511 people who are still undergoing isolation or treatment.

Meanwhile, to date, the accumulation of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta has reached 463,552 cases. Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 431,264 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 93.0 percent. Then there were 7,777 people died with a mortality rate of 1.7 percent.

"The positivity rate or the percentage of positive cases in the last week in Jakarta was 21.8 percent", he said.

Some time ago the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan said the capital city was entering the critical phase of COVID-19. This was conveyed when announcing the extension of the micro PPKM (Enforcement of Restrictions on Community Activities) until June 28.

The surge of inactive cases in the last few days is in the range of 2,000 cases every day. This makes all parties have to be more vigilant to prevent the capital city from entering the critical phase after the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

"The capital city is now in a condition that requires extra attention. If the current conditions are out of control, we will enter a critical phase, and if that phase occurs, then we must take drastic steps like what happened in September and February last year. We want that event not repeated", said Anies, Tuesday, June 15.