Airlangga: The Rate Of Spread Of COVID-19 Cases Has Improved Significantly

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto/DOK IST

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the rate of spread of COVID-19 cases seen from the Reproduction Number (Rt) below 1 showed that Indonesia had experienced significant improvements.

“All provinces have Rt below 1. The five provinces with the highest Rt values are Maluku (0.88), Gorontalo (0.86), Central Java (0.82), DKI Jakarta (0.82) and Banten (0, 79)," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga who is also the Chairman of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (PC-PEN) as quoted by Antara, Monday, September 27.

Coordinating Minister Airlangga said based on ourworldindata.org data it was recorded that as of July 1, 2021, Indonesia's Rt was 1.35. However, on September 21, 2021, it has decreased sharply so that Indonesia's Rt is 0.62. This figure is much lower than Singapore's 1.71 and Malaysia's 0.92.

"Rt 0.62 means that every 1 case of COVID-19 infects 0.62 people on average, so the number of case transmissions continues to decrease. This means that the rate of transmission of cases in Indonesia is quite under control," said Airlangga.

He conveyed that the handling of COVID-19 in Indonesia continues to experience improvement and decline in cases, continuing the trend of improvement that has occurred since early August. The number of active cases as of 27 September 2021 was 40,270 cases, or down 92.98 percent from the peak of active cases data as of 24 July. 2021. Likewise, the number of daily confirmed cases for 6 consecutive days is below 3,000 cases.

"This condition must be maintained and maintained, by building awareness of various potentials for the emergence of new waves," said Airlangga.

The positivity rate has also consistently shown a downward trend since the end of July. Last week the average weekly (7DMA) positivity rate was 1.44 percent, while on September 26 it was 1.18 percent. Then for outside Java and Bali, the trend of confirmed cases per 100 thousand inhabitants/week has improved/decreased in 27 province.

As of September 26, only 1 province is still at the TK-3 Level, namely North Kalimantan, there are 2 Provinces at the TK-2 Level, namely East Kalimantan and Bangka Belitung, while the other 24 provinces are already at the TK-1 Level.

According to data from the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPC-PEN) as of September 26, national active cases were recorded at 42,769 cases with a distribution in Java-Bali of 35.75 percent and outside Java-Bali of 62.84 percent.

Since the beginning of the level-based PPKM (9 August-26 September), the number of active cases outside Java-Bali has continued to decline with the highest decline occurring in the Nusa Tenggara region of minus 89.74 percent, followed by Sumatra by minus 89.06 percent, Kalimantan by minus 85.92 percent, Sulawesi minus 84.10 percent, and Maluku-Papua minus 82.30 percent. While in Java-Bali cases decreased by minus 93.36 percent.

The National Recovery Rate (RR) is 95.62 percent, better than the global average of 89.94 percent. Meanwhile, the average in Java-Bali is 95.94 percent and Outside Java-Bali is 95.94 percent. 94.96 percent. Meanwhile, the national case fatality rate (CFR) was 3.36 percent, higher than the Global CFR which was recorded at 2.05 percent, while the Java-Bali CFR was 3.50 percent and outside Java-Bali was 3.08 percent. .