Minister Of Home Affairs Asks Local Government To Observe COVID-19 Data, Don't Be Late In Entering Old Cases

Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian (Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has asked local governments (Pemda) to always pay close attention to the development of COVID-19 data in their respective regions.

Tito didn't want to find a surge in cases of COVID-19 transmission in a number of areas due to the input of old data. Therefore, updating of COVID-19 data must continue to be carried out.

"Please really look at the data, because the data we found in several regions, positive case data or confirming data, turned out to be a lot of old data being uploaded," Tito was quoted as saying in the Cabinet Secretariat. on Sunday, September 5th.

Then, Tito also mentioned that there was a finding in one area that had a COVID-19 death rate or fatality rate that jumped sharply. After being traced, it turns out that the death rate is the accumulation of data from the previous weeks.

"After we look at it, it turns out that the death rate has accumulated from the previous few weeks, not the real one that week," said Tito.

Furthermore, Tito asked each regional government to hold a coordination meeting regarding the COVID-19 data input system. This data input will greatly determine the direction of government policies in controlling the pandemic in the future.

One of them is in determining the application of the assessment level of the Policy for the Enforcement of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) and its regional zones.

"If the old data is entered, the policy will be wrong, the number of active cases entered, which was 3-4 weeks ago, resulted in a lot of active cases, so that in the end they all want to be withdrawn to isoter (centralized isolation), even though the number may not be that much," explained Tito.

For information, as many as 171,885 specimens were examined today. As a result, there are 5,403 new positive cases of COVID-19 as of today.

The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 4,129,020 people and 171,885 active cases.

Today's recovered cases increased by 10,191 cases, bringing the total to 3,837,640 people recovered. Then, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 392 people and a total of 134,861 people.