The COVID-19 Case Has A New Record, Jokowi: It's All Worse!

President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Photo: Setkab)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) highlighted the increasing number of active cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia. This made President Jokowi look angry and said the situation for the spread of COVID-19 was getting worse.

"This is all getting worse," Jokowi said in his introduction to the limited meeting with the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery which was broadcast online on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube, Monday, November 30.

He explained, from the data he received on Sunday, November 29, there was an increase in active cases from 12.78 percent to 13.41 percent.

"Although this figure is better than the world figure, but be careful. It is higher than last week," he stressed.

As for the recovery rate, the data it received also decreased. "Last week it was 84.03 percent, now it's 83.44 percent," he said.

He suspects this is due to an increase in COVID-19 cases that have occurred during the past week.

"This is because of this, the cases that have increased more in the last week," he said.

Previously reported, COVID-19 cases in Indonesia are experiencing an increase. At its peak, on Sunday, November 29, the addition of COVID-19 cases recorded another record.

The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) releases additional new 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.

"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.

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