Ministry Of Health Says 49 Thousand Active Cases Of COVID-19 Have Not Been Updated For More Than 21 Days, Central Java Is The Most

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JAKARTA - Director of Prevention of Direct Infectious Disease Control (P2PML) of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi said there was still 18.3 percent of active case data in areas that had not been updated for more than 21 days.

"There are data on active cases in areas that have not been updated for more than 21 days, totaling around 49.000 cases", Nadia said on the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube video, quoted on Thursday, August 26.

Of this number, the five provinces that have the highest number of active cases that have not been updated are Central Java at 28.9 percent, West Java 24.6 percent, Papua 70.3 percent, North Sumatra 12.3 percent, and East Java. 10.5 percent.

"We urge the local government to immediately update the data. This data continues to move in number, considering that there are still data submitted which are old data", said Nadia.

Nadia said that we will release the newly released cases based on the date of the incident, so it will not affect the level of the pandemic situation.

"Of course the health ministry continues to work with local governments to continue to update and synchronize data on active cases that have not been updated. The status is whether the cases have recovered or the cases have died", she said.

In addition, Nadia also said that there were still around 10.000 COVID-19 cases in Depok City that had not been recorded in the Ministry of Health's single data system, the New All Record (NAR).

So, so far, the 10.000 cases have not been announced in the daily COVID-19 case development report. Then, the Ministry of Health will release the case this week.

"This week, the Ministry of Health will release around 10.000 cases from the city of Depok that have not been recorded in the All Record system", said Nadia.

Nadia said that the 10 thousand cases will be released because the Ministry of Health and the Depok City Government have just completed the integration of COVID-19 data between the regions and the center.

"The ranks of the Depok city government and the Ministry of Health's Center for Data and Information have worked hard to connect the two systems so that we can get a more realistic picture of the epidemiology of COVID-19", she concluded.