East Jakarta Becomes The City With The Highest Active COVID-19 Cases

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JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 noted that East Jakarta is the area that has the most active cases of COVID-19 at this time. There are 2,600 active cases in East Jakarta.

Active cases are people who have been confirmed positive and are still undergoing treatment or in isolation, either independent isolation or controlled isolation, and have not been declared cured or dead.

"As of October 11, East Jakarta has become one of the districts / cities with the highest active cases, namely 2,600 cases," said Dewi in a discussion at Graha BNPB, East Jakarta, Wednesday, October 14.

In total, there are 12 districts / cities with more than 1,000 active cases. The second rank of districts / cities with the highest active cases above 1,000 after East Jakarta is South Jakarta with 2,439 cases.

Furthermore, Pekanbaru City with 2,330 active cases, West Jakarta with 2,248 active cases, Central Jakarta with 2,009 active cases, Padang City with 1,855 active cases, Jayapura City with 1,751 active cases.

Then there is Bekasi City with 1,688 active cases, Depok City with 1,606 active cases, Bogor Regency with 1,374 active cases, North Jakarta with 1,194 active cases, and Ambon City with 1,126 active cases.

"There are 12 districts / cities with the highest active cases as of October 11. All of them are cities, except one Bogor district. The highest is East Jakarta with 2,600 active cases and the lowest is Ambon City with 1,126 active cases," said Dewi.

"This is an implication of our readiness in handling how we can control transmission, and how we can break the chain of transmission in these areas so that there will be no more cases," he continued.

Of the 12 districts / cities with more than 1,000 active cases, the highest death cases were in Central Jakarta with a death rate of 2.62 percent or 409 people. In 12th place is the city of Bogor with 0.59 percent or 13 people.

"We will see the death, in the city of Bogor the death rate is at least 0.59 percent, there are 13 people from all cases who have been sick and died, so the number is very small. Central Jakarta is 409 people," said Dewi.

Meanwhile, the most cases of recovery were in the DKI Jakarta area, the highest was East Jakarta, namely 12,053 people. Dewi said that the high rate of recovery in Jakarta was due to the intensive handling.

"As for recovery, most of them are indeed Jakarta, yes, this is also great. People are sick, but they are chasing after recovery. The testing is also very high, so they can quickly catch people who may be in close contact with positive patients," he added.