Anies Claims Positivity Rate And Emergency Room Needs In Jakarta Experience A Decline

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan claims the COVID-19 positivity rate in Jakarta has decreased by 24 percent.

He explained, in early July the positivity rate reached 43 percent. Subsequently, this figure gradually declined to 41 percent on July 16; 36 percent on July 18; and fell by 28 percent on July 21 yesterday

"As of yesterday, the figure was 24 percent, so there is a positive trend, a downward trend," Anies said in an online press conference, Sunday, July 25.

He confirmed that the decline was true because the testing carried out in Jakarta was in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health.

"We must be 15 times higher than the WHO standard.

Even so, Anies asked all parties not to rush to conclude that the condition was safe or that the peak of COVID-19 transmission in Jakarta had been successfully passed. "We will conclude next week, but now the positivity rate is decreasing day by day," he said.

Furthermore, Anies also claimed that currently many beds in the Emergency Installations of various hospitals were starting to become empty. This was conveyed based on the data he received

"Reports from the hospital that the number of emergency room occupancy is no longer full," he said.

This condition is certainly different from June to early July, where many hospitals exceed their capacity to handle COVID-19 patients. Anies then explained that at least 4,000-5,000 ICU rooms were needed at that time.

This figure is obtained from a simple formula in which 100 percent of the COVID rate requires 4 to 5 percent of ICU rooms. Meanwhile, ICU rooms in DKI Jakarta currently number 1,500.

"We have experienced at the hospital that there was a queue to enter the ER. That's all the data, when Laporcovid compiled the data, they had it because we prepared it.