Despite Continuously Recording Additional Cases, COVID-19 Recovery Rate In DKI Reaches 92.8 Percent

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Health Office revealed that the percentage of recovered COVID-19 patients in the capital city in the past week or as of Friday, February 4, reached 92.8 percent with the realization reaching 5,798 people recovered.

"A total of 883,377 people have been declared cured with a cure rate of 92.8 percent," said Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division of the DKI Jakarta Health Service, Dwi Oktavia in Jakarta as quoted by Antara, Saturday, February 5.

When compared to last week or on Saturday, January 29, the cure rate reached 95.8 percent. However, with a lower number of recovered people reaching 1,777 people.

Even so, the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in DKI is high, which is above 90 percent.

Meanwhile, positive cases of COVID-19 in the capital have so far reached 20 percent, a significant jump compared to the last two weeks on Saturday, January 22, which reached 5.8 percent.

"We urge the public to also be aware of the transmission of the Omicron variant which is now increasing in Jakarta. 3T efforts continue to be encouraged, in addition to COVID-19 vaccination," he said.

The increase in the percentage of positive cases of COVID-19 exceeded the threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO) of five percent as the ideal limit.

The DKI Provincial Government (Pemprov) noted that over the past week as many as 283,825 people underwent a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based swab test with a 20 percent percentage of positive cases as of Friday, February 4.

The high spike in positive cases of COVID-19 in DKI was also driven by the high number of people undergoing PCR swab tests from the WHO target of 10,645 tests per week. Meanwhile, the latest data in Jakarta totaled 283,825 tests.

Dwi added that the WHO test target is 1,000 people who are tested by PCR per million population per week so that the WHO target for Jakarta is a minimum of 10,645 people tested per week.

This target has been surpassed by Jakarta for some time. In the past week, 283,825 people were tested by PCR.

"Meanwhile, the total number of PCR tests in DKI Jakarta has now reached 803,622 per million population," he said.

Based on data from the DKI Health Office, daily COVID-19 cases as of Friday, February 4, increased by 13,179 cases bringing the total positive cases to 952,371.

Meanwhile, the number of active cases or people undergoing isolation or being treated increased by 7,356 cases, bringing the total to 55,256 cases.