JAKARTA - Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said he was grateful for the declining condition of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia which had lasted for the past week.
He conveyed this after a limited meeting with a number of ministries and institutions, chaired by President Joko Widodo at the State Palace.
"The President emphasized that we are grateful that our hard work has succeeded in reducing the number of conformations, pressure in hospitals. But don't forget that we must continue to be vigilant," Budi said on the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube video, Monday, August 2.
Budi explained that the decline in cases in Indonesia occurred at a time when a number of other countries experienced a spike in cases. Previously, Indonesia had become the epicenter of the spread of COVID-19 like India.
"Indeed, this virus is difficult to predict. Its spread, which has occurred everywhere, throughout Indonesia, including the one that was affected yesterday, has risen high after India. But now other big countries in the world have also experienced a high rise. Many countries like America have now returned. above 100,000 (cases per day)," said Budi. Previously, the Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Wiku said that active COVID-19 cases, positivity rates, daily cases, and recovery had improved in the PPKM Level 1 to 4 period, after had increased in the Emergency PPKM.
The percentage of active cases which on the last day of Emergency PPKM was 18.65 percent has decreased on the last day of PPKM levels 1 to 4 to 18.12 percent.
In addition, the positivity rate also decreased from the previous 33.42 percent to 31.16 percent.
"The decline also occurred in the highest daily cases. During the Emergency PPKM period we once reached the highest daily case of 56,757. In the PPKM Level 1-4 period, we were able to suppress it to 49,509 cases," said Wiku.
"Similarly, the number of cures continues to show an increase from before Emergency PPKM, which was 11,578, increased in Emergency PPKM to 29,791 and continued to increase at PPKM Levels 1 to 4 to 37,640 cases," he continued.
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