Salip DKI Jakarta Regarding The Addition Of COVID-19 Cases, What Happened In Central Java?

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JAKARTA - Daily cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia set another record on Sunday, November 29, with an additional 6,267 cases. The province with the highest number of additional cases currently is Central Java, with 2,036 cases.

By recording this figure, Central Java has overtaken DKI Jakarta, which as of today, reported an additional 1,431 cases of COVID-19.

Responding to this, the Head of the Central Java Provincial Health Office Yulianto Prabowo said this might happen because the number of tests in his area was quite high. He is sure, other regions have actually recorded the same figure, but so far it has not been detected because the testing is not as massive as Central Java.

"I think this is because our tests are high. So I think it is actually high everywhere. It's just that the tests are low. In Central Java, the tests are high," said Yulianto when contacted by VOI, Sunday, November 29.

"If there are a lot of tests, yes, many (cases, red) will be found," he added.

Even so, he agreed that one of the reasons for the addition of this case also occurred after the long holiday at the end of last October or while on leave with the Prophet's birthday. Moreover, Central Java, can be said to be one of the tourist destinations visited.

"Yes, that is also (the addition due to a long holiday, red) but if that, it's the same everywhere," he said.

To prevent an increase in COVID-19 cases, the Central Java Provincial Health Office continues to ask the public to promote 3M health protocol or wear masks, keep their distance, and wash their hands to prevent COVID-19 transmission.

"We continue to encourage 3M and ask the public to do it," he said.

Previously, apart from Central Java and DKI Jakarta, there were three other provinces that experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases to hundreds of people, namely East Java Province which recorded an additional 412 cases, West Sumatra 273 cases, and West Java recorded 228 cases.

Based on this data, all provinces in Indonesia reported additional cases of COVID-19. However, there were four provinces that experienced additional cases under 10, namely Papua, West Sulawesi, West Papua, and North Maluku.

Meanwhile, for the number of provinces that reported the highest number of recovered cases were DKI Jakarta with 814 cases, West Java 770 cases, Central Java 760 cases, East Java 287 cases, and Central Kalimantan 196 cases.

It is known that the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of Sunday, November 29. As a result, of the 42,903 specimens examined, 6,267 new cases of COVID-19 were added.

This figure is the highest number ever recorded by the Ministry of Health. Previously, the number of additional cases of COVID-19 often ranged from 5,000 to 5,500 cases.

"Based on the examination of 42,903 specimens, 6,267 new cases were recorded, so the total accumulation reached 534,266 cases," he was quoted as saying in a written statement from the Ministry of Health, Sunday, November 29.

Meanwhile, the number of patients who were declared cured of COVID-19 reached 3,810 people with the accumulated figure reaching 445,793.

Meanwhile, the number of suspects currently has reached 70,792 people.

"For patients who died reached 169 people with a total accumulation of 16,815," said the Ministry of Health.

Regarding the current positivity rate, it is still in the range of 14.1 percent. This means, Indonesia cannot be said to be safe from the spread of this virus because the World Health Organization (WHO) standard is at or below five percent.