Ministry Of Health Data: Indonesian COVID-19 Weekly Trends Marked Below 500 Cases

Screenshots - reports of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Indonesia as of January 6, 2023. (ANTARA/HO-Kemenkes).

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health reported the national COVID-19 situation in the last two weeks showing a consistent downward trend in daily cases below 500 positive confirmed cases. Reporting from the latest report by the Health Research and Development Agency (Balitbangkes) of the Indonesian Ministry of Health as of January 6, 2023 via Antara, the daily confirmed cases in the last two weeks decreased from 1,043 to 494 cases. Active cases in the same period decreased from 26,039 to 9,124 cases. Even with indicators of patients dying down from 2.391 percent to 2.390 percent. Patients hospitalized decreased from 3,335 to 1,897 patients and the trend of filling of treatment beds in the last two weeks decreased from 5.95 percent to 3.49 percent. The Ministry of Health also reported that the number of specimens examined in the last two weeks had decreased from 42,885 to 32,454 samples examined. The positivity rate in the same period also fell from 3.62 percent to 2.09 percent with a close contact ratio increasing from 11.75 to 12.60 from the close contact ratio supposed to be above 15. primary 1 COVID-19 vaccination recipients in the last two weeks have increased from 86.61 percent to 86.62 percent of the total target of more than 234.66 million people. Recipients of primary 2 COVID-19 vaccination in the same period increased from 74.14 percent to 74.16 percent. Recipients of booster doses or booster 1 vaccination increased from 28.92 percent to 29.03 percent. Recipients of booster 2 vaccination increased from 5.13 percent to 5.32 percent. Meanwhile, Spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Health Mohammad Syahril reminded the public that the COVID-19 emergency status in Indonesia is still valid today, even though the implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) has been officially revoked. "Indonesia is still in a disaster emergency (COVID-19) and that is what issued President Joko Widodo's rules," he said. Syahril said PPKM is a form of government intervention that is a derivative of Presidential Decree Number 11 of 2020 concerning the Determination of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Syahril, who also serves as President Director of RSPI Sulianti Saroso Jakarta, said the government still needed many special considerations to revoke the COVID-19 emergency status. The considerations in question include ensuring that the case situation can really be controlled optimally. In addition, the government is still waiting for the global revocation of the pandemic status by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is evidenced by the existence of a number of countries that have experienced a spike in cases, such as in China with the BF.7 subvariant Omicron wave which is estimated to have infected around 250 million local residents.