JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, said that the trend of increasing COVID-19 cases over the past week has begun to decline slightly. This is good news.
But unfortunately, the trend of the COVID-19 death rate tends to increase. Based on data from the Ministry of Health, in the past week, the number of deaths has always been above 1,000 per day.
"The death rate, which tends to increase over the last 7 days, should be taken as a joint reflection. Moreover, for 6 consecutive days our deaths have reached more than 1,000 every day," said Wiku.
The high death rate is a heavy homework for handling the pandemic. Because, to reduce the COVID-19 death rate, it requires more cases to experience healing.
Moreover, one death counts as a life. Many people have lost their family and relatives due to the spread of COVID-19.
"This can no longer be tolerated because this is not just a number, it includes families, colleagues, relatives and loved ones who have left us," said Wiku. Wiku said the death rate for COVID-19 patients in all provinces was still showing an increasing trend except for DKI. Jakarta.
"DKI Jakarta as of yesterday showed a significant decrease from 268 to 95 deaths in a day," said Wiku.
He hoped that the daily number of positive cases that fell and recoveries increased in the past week should be followed by reducing the death rate.
It is known, national positive cases have decreased, where initially there was an increase of 56,757 cases on July 15, to 33,772 on July 21, or decreased by 40 percent.
Meanwhile, the cure rate for the last 7 days showed an increase, which was more than 70 percent. Likewise, the percentage of active cases seen, began to decline over the last 3 days.
Then the percentage of COVID-19 bed occupancy or daily bed occupation ratio (BOR) at the national level has also consistently decreased for the last 7 days from 76.26 percent to 72.82 percent.
"This good development should be appreciated. I thank all health workers who are tireless in caring for patients. Also to all local governments who have moved quickly in helping with patient reporting and close contacts of COVID-19," he concluded.
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