Even Though The COVID-19 Case Has Been Sloping, The DKI Health Office Is Still Geber Test And Examination To Citizens

Officers injected the vaccine into residents at a vaccination center in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, Wednesday (14/7/2021). ANTARA

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Health Office (Dinkes) continues to strengthen tests or examinations even though the COVID-19 case has been sloping in the capital city. "Saat ini dalam posisi (pandemi) belum selesai, PPKM masih ada level satu," kata Kepala Dinas Kesehatan DKI Widyastuti saat menjadi speaker terkait inovasi secara daring diakses di Jakarta, Antara, Kamis, 29 September. Based on data from the DKI Health Office uploaded by corona.jakarta.go.id which was accessed at 19.00 WIB, Thursday, it was recorded that during the past week the number of residents tested for COVID-19 remained high at 46.762 people. This number exceeds the minimum number according to the requirements of the World Health Organization (WHO) reaching 10,642 tests during the week for Jakarta. With a high number of examinations, the percentage of positive cases in DKI during the past week was relatively high at 10.1 percent. Meanwhile, as of this Thursday, there were an additional cases of 781 positive cases, active cases namely those being treated and isolated decreased by 188 cases, leaving 6,234 active cases. While the number of recovered patients from COVID reached 966 cases. Widyastuti added that for vaccination in DKI Jakarta, the achievement was no less large. The DKI Health Office noted that vaccinations reached 12.6 million or 125.3 percent of the target of reaching 10 million people, for the first dose of vaccination. While the second dose reached 10.8 million and five million have been vaccinated with the third dose. He explained that one of the high vaccination achievements in Jakarta was due to intensive action to the level of neighborhood unit (RT). "We broke down (in detail) up to the RT level, Dukcapil data, PEN KPC data, we mapped to the RT, who has not been vaccinated, we are uber, with such data, we can accelerate vaccination," he said.