The Average Positivity Of COVID-19 In Jakarta Is Below 10 Percent, Anies: This Is The Result Of All Of Our Hard Work

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said this week the positivity rate for COVID-19 in Indonesia was below 10 percent, to be exact, 8.1 percent. The positivity rate is the percentage of positive cases from the number of specimens examined.

"This is the result of all of our work because the positivity rate describes the situation in society, this is a reflection", said Anies at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Tuesday, August 17.

Anies said that the current decline in DKI's positivity rate is getting closer to the ideal number set by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is known, WHO has set a safe threshold for the positivity rate of 5 percent.

The former Minister of Education and Culture revealed that the current state of the positivity rate shows that the number of COVID-19 cases in the field is decreasing.

"So, I hope for all of us, let's continue this struggle so that our positive rate returns to the safe limit by being below 5 percent", said Anies.

He then asked citizens to continue to apply health protocols. Anies also asked residents to participate in the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination.

"Let's finish the vaccination because this vaccination helps reduce the severity if we get exposed. With this vaccination, we protect ourselves, protect our families", he explained.

It is known, as of August 16, there was an addition of 513 positive cases and the accumulation reached 840.955 cases. There are 9.205 active cases so far.

Of the total number of positive cases, a total of 818.700 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 97.4 percent, and a total of 13.050 people died with a death rate of 1.6 percent.