JAKARTA - Coordinator of the Expert Team for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 Prof Wiku Adisasmito said the transmission conditions in Indonesia were not good considering that positive cases were still increasing and were above the world's percentage.
"The condition is not good, we are not okay. We are in an emergency, we are trying to control the situation," said Prof. Wiku Adisasmito in the online socialization of handling COVID-19 in West Papua Province accessed from Jakarta, reported by Antara, Friday. , July 16
Based on data on the development of daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday, July 15, he explained that the addition of positive cases in Indonesia was still increasing. The percentage reached 17.61 percent, which means 11.03 percent higher than the world's active cases which reached 6.58 percent.
Since early February 2021, COVID-19 cases in Indonesia have experienced a significant decline, while many other countries have experienced a worsening, resulting in the percentage of active cases in Indonesia being below the world average.
However, the increase in cases after the 2021 Eid al-Fitr holiday, he said, resulted in the percentage of active cases in Indonesia starting to be the same as the world, even as of June 18, 2021, starting to be above the world average.
Meanwhile, the percentage of recovered cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia is currently decreasing. "We used to be 92 percent, now it's decreased to 79.81 percent. Our number of deaths is also increasing, and this is something we have to face. We used to look at India and we always said not to be like India, and now we have to experience that. ".
"No one designed it, this is our collective response," said Wiku.
Judging from these conditions, he said that the active cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia are now above the world after they had improved, but at the end it was even worse. Cure rates are down, although they are usually above the world average.
"The death rate is more or less the same graphic remains above the world, but thin. This is what we have to improve," said Wiku.
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