COVID-19 Death Data Lost, Incorrectly Entered Or Under Repair?

JAKARTA - The government issued the COVID-19 death rate from the indicator for determining the PPKM level due to problems in data input caused by the accumulation of death cases in the previous few weeks.

Member of the House of Representatives Commission IX, Kurniasih Mufidayati, highlighted the government's excuse for eliminating the death rate from the COVID-19 handling data indicator. The reason is that there has been an error in data input in the last few weeks. "The reason for inputting data does not make sense because our policies on all lines often have problems," said Mufida, Thursday, August 12. According to Mufida, eliminating one of these indicators will actually make the handling of COVID-19 worse. 19 in the country is getting bleak. Because he said, the death rate is an important data in measuring the extent to which policies for handling the COVID-19 pandemic are running. "If you use the government's logic to input data incorrectly, I'm afraid that all indicators have a chance of being eliminated. For example, the positive rate, BOR and testing numbers that are the WHO standard," he said. The role of experts and the community is running in providing input," continued Mufida.

Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said, with the issuance of the death toll from the COVID-19 handling indicators due to data collection problems, there were 26 cities and regencies whose PPKM levels dropped from level 4 to level 3.

This was said by Luhut when announcing the extension of the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) through the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube channel, Monday, August 9. down from level 4 to level 3. this shows a significant improvement in conditions on the ground," said Luhut.

"We carried out this evaluation by removing the mortality indicator in the assessment because we found that there was input data which was the accumulation of mortality rates over the past few weeks. This led to distortions in the assessment," Luhut continued.

The Government Says, Not Deleted But Repaired

The Minister of Communications and Information, Johnny G Plate, emphasized that no data was deleted from the indicators for handling the pandemic. This was conveyed in response to criticism related to the elimination of mortality data from the PPKM level assessment indicators. As is known, there are three basic indicators used in determining the PPKM level of an area, namely the transmission rate, positivity rate, and mortality rate. deaths due to COVID-19, because there are a number of records that are not in accordance with the conditions in the field. Now, improvements are being made to ensure data accuracy. If it is neat, the death indicator will be re-entered,” said Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Johnny G. Plate in a press statement, Thursday, August 12. . This causes distortions in the analysis process of an area. Therefore, the government decided to improve the data by sorting the real time death data for that day with the accumulated death data from the previous days. In his explanation, Johnny gave an example as from the number of deaths entered. , not all actual death toll on that date. Among them there may be data that had been recorded 3 weeks earlier, but was reported again after the patient was confirmed to have died. During the data correction, the government temporarily used other indicators for assessment. Minister Johnny emphasized that it was the government's commitment to carry out monitoring and improvement if found In cooperation with local governments and related elements, the central government continues to improve data collection techniques and improve data quality, to find out more with certainty the condition of the pandemic in Indonesia. Similarly, Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Wiku Adisasmito said that on In principle, this provisional decision was taken especially for PPKM in the Java-Bali region in order to achieve valid data for determining the right policy. “Currently the government is improving the interoperability of national data. The Ministry of Health through its various networks in every area is improving and trying as much as possible to cover the recording of all aspects of the existing patient criteria," said Wiku.

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