Entire Province COVID-19 Bed Occupancy Below 50 Percent

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, said that the bed occupancy ratio (BOR) for COVID-19 treatments in all provinces was decreasing. In fact, currently the BOR in all provinces is below 50 percent.

In fact, said Wiku, the province with the highest BOR was only 45.47 percent, namely the province of Aceh. Meanwhile, West Papua has the lowest BOR at 6.76 percent.

"This means that we have successfully passed the emergency situation, namely the surge in COVID-19 patients in hospitals, in all provinces in Indonesia," Wiku said in a virtual press conference, Wednesday, September 7.

Nationally, COVID-19 cases in one week have decreased. Last week, there were 94,373 new cases of COVID-19 nationwide a week. This week, cases decreased to 55,189 cases.

Likewise with the percentage of active cases. Last week, the national active case was 5.34 percent. Active cases this week fell to 3.77 percent.

"This week's decline indicates that both positive cases and the national active case percentage have fallen for 7 consecutive weeks," said Wiku.

However, the COVID-19 death rate is still increasing. However, during the past week, the daily death toll in Indonesia was below 1,000 deaths per day, after a spike in cases last June.

On average, daily COVID-19 deaths last week amounted to 563 deaths. During the spike in cases until the end of August, the number of deaths was consistently in the range of 1,000 deaths per day.

"Obviously this is a development that shows an improvement, even though one death is still considered a life and can't be ignored. Our main goal is to eliminate death from being non-existent," he explained.