Indonesia Records Highest Recovery Record Since The Beginning Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health recorded the daily cure rate for COVID-19 on Friday, February 25, at 61,361 people or the highest record since the start of the pandemic.

Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Vaccination of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said the recovery rate surpassed the previous record on August 6, 2021, which was 48,832 people.

Meanwhile, the number of daily cases on Friday decreased to 49,447 people compared to the previous day's 57,426 people.

Meanwhile, the trend of treating COVID-19 patients in hospitals was observed to be sloping at 37 percent of the total national capacity, a decrease of one percent compared to the previous day at 38 percent, relatively stable in the last five days since February 20, 2022.

"Today, we recorded a number of indicators for handling the pandemic showing positive numbers, starting from the recovery rate, daily cases and the number of COVID-19 patients being treated," he said, quoted by Antara, Friday, February 25.

However, Nadia reminded the public not to be negligent. This positive development of handling COVID-19 must be able to push even harder to immediately break the chain of spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia.

"From the government's perspective, we continue to try to reduce the number of cases and strengthen health services," he said.

Nadia said the downward trend in the treatment of COVID-19 patients nationally was also followed by a downward trend in the positivity rate in several regions during the period 15-24 February 2022.

Based on data from the Ministry of Health, during the period 15-24 February in DKI Jakarta the positivity rate decreased from 17.5 percent on 15 February 2021 to 16 percent on 24 February 2021.

In the same period, several regions that were monitored for a decline in their positivity rate, including Banten recorded a positivity rate of 23.5 percent to 20.7 percent, Bali 13.5 percent to 10.4 percent, South Kalimantan 14.8 percent to 13, 8 percent, NTB 11.2 percent to 9.4 percent.

In addition, Maluku 6.2 percent to 4.1 percent, Papua 12.7 percent to 11.8 percent, West Papua 14.5 percent to 12.8 percent.

Nadia said one of the efforts to reduce the number of cases and break the chain of spread of COVID-19 was to increase the rate of vaccination, both for primary and follow-up (booster) doses.

"Vaccination has proven to be able to protect people from the worst risks to death, especially for the elderly, children, and people who have comorbidities," he said.