Bad News Mother! 14 Percent Of New COVID-19 Cases In Jakarta Today Infect Children

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Province recorded a new record of 9,271 COVID-19 cases from 30,549 specimen examinations. The bad news is that 14 percent of today's new cases are in children under the age of 18.

Head of Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Health Office, Dwi Oktavia, explained that as many as 332 cases were children aged 0-5 years, 993 cases were children aged 6-18 years.

Meanwhile, 7,218 new cases today are residents aged 19-59 years and 728 cases are elderly or aged 60 years and over.

"It is very important for parents to take care of their children more strictly and avoid leaving the house with the children. As much as possible do activities at home with children, because positive cases in children are still high," said Dwi in his statement, Saturday. , June 26.

Dwi said that currently the number of active COVID-19 cases in the capital city has increased by 6,503 cases, bringing the number of active cases to date as many as 51,434 people who are still being treated or isolated.

Then, the total number of confirmed cases in Jakarta as of today is 510,667 cases. Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 451,013 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 88.3 percent and a total of 8,220 people died with a death rate of 1.6 percent.

Furthermore, Dwi also explained the distribution of 9,271 positive cases today, namely the Thousand Islands 7 cases, West Jakarta 2,005 cases, Central Jakarta 722 cases, South Jakarta 1,671 cases, East Jakarta 2,416 cases, and North Jakarta 1,509 cases, as well as case data that is still pending. in the verification process as many as 941.

"Meanwhile, the sub-districts with the highest number of cases include Tanjung Priok with 492 cases, Cengkareng with 392 cases, Ciracas with 340 cases, and Cipayung with 306 cases," he explained.

Furthermore, currently there are 4,018,256 people who have received the first dose of vaccination and 1,907,281 of the second dose of vaccination in the program. In mutual cooperation vaccination, the first dose was given to 72,089 people and the second dose was 19,991 people.