The Ministry Of Health Believes That The National Scale Pandemic Is Starting To Improve Because The COVID-19 Case In A Densely Populated City Is Sloping

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JAKARTA - Secretary of the Directorate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health Siti Nadia Tarmizi believes that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on a national scale is starting to improve at this time.

This is because, he said, a number of provinces that have densely populated cities are starting to show a trend of decreasing cases and decreasing cases from previously reaching the peak of the third wave of cases.

"In aggregate, we can see that the handling of the pandemic has improved nationally because provinces with large densely populated cities have passed their peak in a fairly consistent time," Nadia said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, March 1.

Nadia explained, there are 14 provinces that have started to confirm the decline in daily cases and patient care during the last week in February.

Among them are DKI Jakarta, Banten, West Java, East Java, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, South Sumatra, Southeast Sulawesi, Papua and West Papua.

Then, there are 6 provinces where daily cases have started to decline, namely Central Java, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, West Sumatra, Gorontalo, Bengkulu, and Lampung.

In addition, the positivity rate or the percentage of positive cases from specimen examination in 14 provinces has also decreased.

"The Ministry of Health noted that several regions in the last week of February experienced a decline in positive numbers, including DKI Jakarta, Bali, Banten, West Java, East Java, Maluku, Papua, West Nusa Tenggara, West Papua, South Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, South Sumatra. , Southeast Sulawesi and North Kalimantan," explained Nadia.

This condition, continued Nadia, made the position of patient care in hospitals also sloping because the contribution of patients in areas with large populations also decreased.

"The position of the highest daily confirmed cases was recorded at 64,718 cases per day, exceeding the figure during the Delta wave at 56,757. Although daily confirmed cases have crossed the peak of the Delta wave, patients treated at this hospital are only a third of the delta treatment cases," he clear.