Quoting NAR Data, Coordinating Minister Luhut Says The Recovery Of Indonesian COVID-19 Patients Is The Second Highest After Russia

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Panjaitan (Photo: Irfan Meidianto/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Coordinator for the Implementation of Emergency Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, said the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the country was the second-highest in the world. He even said that Indonesia's recovery rate was below Russia's.

"Our recovery rate is also high, we are number two in the world after Russia", Luhut said as quoted from the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment's YouTube broadcast, Monday, July 5.

He initially explained first about the positive cases of COVID-19 in the country. The data was obtained from the New All Record (NAR) system owned by the Ministry of Health.

Luhut said that during the last five days, the number of COVID-19 cases recorded continued to increase.

"Actually, the highest was yesterday on the 3rd (July, ed) which was 27.9 thousand. Then on the 4th (July, ed) it was 27.2 thousand. But I think this will continue to rise if we are not disciplined", he said.

The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment then said this virus has an incubation period of 10-12 days. Thus, the decline in COVID-19 cases can only be felt in the coming week although he hopes it will be earlier.

"We hope that it can be earlier but this depends on how many recovery rates are", he said.

Furthermore, Luhut then explained that currently, the recovery rate in the country is indeed high. "So if you look at yesterday, for example, there were 13.000 cures from those infected with 27.000", he said.

"So actually there are pluses and minuses about this", added Luhut.

Previously, the Ministry of Health released data on the progress of handling COVID-19. On Sunday, July 4, from 120.834 specimens examined, 27.233 confirmed positive cases were found.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 2.284.084 people", quoted from Ministry of Health data, Sunday, July 4.

Meanwhile, the number of recovered cases increased by 13.127 people. Thus, the cumulative total recovered cases reached 1.928.274 people.

On the other hand, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 has increased by 555 people. With this addition, the cumulative total of deaths to 60.582 people.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, July 3, or the day before, the number of new cases of COVID-19 reached 27.913. Meanwhile, the number of recovered cases today increased by 13.282 people, bringing the total to 1.915.147 people recovered.

Furthermore, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 patients who died increased by 493 people and a total of 60.027 people.