COVID-19 Death Record

FOTO Muhammad Ali Vikry/ Instagram alivikry

JAKARTA - The case of COVID-19 is getting worse in Indonesia. The number of deaths also broke a new record during the corona pandemic that entered Indonesia in early March 2020.

The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. A total of 199,143 specimens were examined with 34,379 new positive cases of COVID-19.

Today's new cases are the highest number during the pandemic. Previously, the number of COVID-19 consecutively set a record at 31,189 new cases on July 6, 29,745 cases on July 5, 27,233 cases on July 4.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 2,379,397 people and active cases are 343,101 cases," according to data from the Ministry of Health, Wednesday, July 7.

Today's recovered cases increased by 14,835 cases, bringing the total to 1,973,388 recovered people. Then, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 1,040 people and a total of 62,908 people.

The province with the most new cases is DKI Jakarta with 9,366 cases and a total of 610,303 cases. Followed by West Java which has 8,591 new cases with a total of 425,206 cases. Central Java has 3,823 new cases and a total of 276,598 cases. Then, East Java has 2,548 new cases and a total of 184,624 cases.

The government has made various efforts to contain the massive spread of COVID-19. Emergency PPKM will be implemented from July 3 to July 20.

This emergency is illustrated by the TPU Rorotan, North Jakarta. DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan once mentioned the COVID-19 emergency situation in the capital city.

"This new land in Rorotan is 3 hectares in size, specifically for COVID. Even though it's spacious, please don't overcrowd it. Yes, don't fill it up, don't fill it with corpses like today again. Enough, enough. We don't want to see more sad faces," said Anies, last Wednesday, June 23.

"The age limit is in the hands of Allah SWT, the human task is endeavor. Together we avoid activities that have the potential to spread. We go to the vaccination site as a safety measure. Avoid risks, welcome safety efforts," said Anies.

The latest from the condition of the Rorotan TPU, a special burial place for COVID-19 bodies, was visually described by Muhammad Ali Vikry. Through his Instagram account, Ali Vikry shared an aerial video recording of the full condition of the Rorotan TPU.

Not only that, there were lines of ambulances lining up. This condition really happened, the medical staff to the scouring officers were overwhelmed.

Not only Java-Bali, COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket in the archipelago. Chairman of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery, Airlangga Hartarto, said that there was an increase in active cases of COVID-19 outside Java-Bali. In fact, the increase in cases currently reaches 34 percent.

"We see that active cases outside Java have increased by 34 percent starting from Aceh," Airlangga said in an online press conference broadcast on BNPB's YouTube, Wednesday, July 7.

From this increase, there were a number of provinces that received more attention from the government, namely Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Lampung, North Maluku, Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara and West Papua.

"And we see, nationally active cases are indeed some areas outside Java-Bali that are high in Papua, East Kalimantan, Riau Islands, and West Sumatra," said Airlangga.

Airlangga also revealed that there are a number of provinces that are of concern because they have recorded bed occupancy ratios (BOR) above 60 percent.

The provinces are Lampung, Riau Islands, East Kalimantan, West Papua, West Kalimantan, South Sumatra, Bengkulu and West Sumatra. "This is the government's concern," said Airlangga.