JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) reported the COVID-19 situation nationwide in the past two weeks showing a consistent downward trend in daily cases which has now touched below 400 positive confirmed cases. Reporting from the latest report by the Health Research and Development Agency (Balitbangkes) of the Ministry of Health as of January 14, 2023, which was reported from Jakarta, Sunday, showing daily confirmed cases in the last two weeks decreased from 604 to 378 cases. Active cases in the same period decreased from 15,206 to 7,774 cases. Even with indicators of patients dying stably at 2.390 percent. Hospitalization patients decreased from 2,370 to 1,770 to 1,510 patients as well as the trend of occupancy of treatment beds in the last two weeks decreased from 4.31 percent to 2.90 percent. The Ministry of Health also reported that the number of specimens examined in the last two weeks decreased from 32,268 to 31,367 samples examined. The positivity rate" in the same period also decreased from 2.74 percent to 1.63 percent with a close contact ratio increasing from 11.87 to 13.79 from the close contact ratio supposed above 15.1 primary COVID-19 vaccination recipients in the last two weeks increased from 86.63 percent to 86.64 percent from a total target of 234.66 million more people. Primary 2 COVID-19 vaccination recipients in the same period increased from 74.17 percent to 74.19 percent. Recipients of booster or booster 1 vaccination increased from 29.04 percent to 29.13 percent. Booster 2 vaccination recipients increased from 5.30 percent to 5.44 percent.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. 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 lifted. "Indonesia is still in this disaster emergency (COVID-19) and that is what issued President Joko Widodo's rule," he said as quoted by Antara. In addition, the Ministry of Health will take advantage of the momentum of the controlled COVID-19 pandemic in the country to accelerate the routine immunization program for children. "There is still a lot of homework that we have to do, the main thing is to protect our generation from disability and death from disease that can be prevented in the most effective way, namely by immunization," said MohammadSyahril.
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