JAKARTA - Indonesia has urged people to avoid the annual exodus to home villages ahead of Hari Raya next month, fearing a surge in coronavirus cases in the nation which already has the highest number of infections in South-east Asia.
In an address on Wednesday (April 28) to provincial governors, mayors and regents, President Joko Widodo said daily new Covid-19 cases almost doubled following last year s Hari Raya, popularly called Idul Fitri, because many flouted the ban on mudik , or the annual return to home villages.
Mr Widodo said an estimated 18.9 million people could still head home, despite the ban this year which saw the country suspending domestic flights and other modes of transportation.
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A resident passes by the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital (RSDC) Wisma Atlet Kemayoran in Central Jakarta. (ANTARA/Muhammad Zulfikar)
As many as 809 patients were referred (to other hospitals) and 87 patients died. Jakarta (ANTARA) - A total of 78,924 COVID-19 patients treated at the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital (RSDC) Wisma Atlet Kemayoran in Central Jakarta have made a recovery.
“As many as 809 patients were referred (to other hospitals), and 87 patients died,” Head of Information at the Joint Defense Area I Command Marine Colonel Aris Mudian stated here on Wednesday.
Of the total 1,424 patients hospitalized, 690 patients were males and 734 patients were females. The figure declined by 22, from 1,446 patients recorded earlier.
We detected a very positive development over the past two months. The number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia continued to decline heavily, a trend that began at the very start of February 2021. While on 1 February 2021, a total of 10,994 new COVID-19 infections were found, this number has almost halved as we enter April 2021 (see the chart below).
This trend is also confirmed by data taken from the Wisma Atlet apartment complex in Central Jakarta. This complex, which was turned into an emergency hospital early in 2020, has almost 6,000 beds available to treat COVID-19 patients. While in late-February 2021 the occupancy rate of Wisma Atlet was slightly over 80 percent, the rate had declined to 38.3 percent in late-March 2021. However, based on anecdotal evidence, ‘conventional hospitals’ in Indonesia do not see such a drastic decrease in COVID-19 patients. An explanation could be that hospitals have limited capacity to treat patients (contrary to the thousands of bed
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Jakarta s COVID-19 recovery rate touches 96.3 percent on Mar 7 8th March 2021 Ondel-ondel wears a face mask in Jakarta on August 2020. ANTARA FOTO/Indrianto Eko Suwarso/aww. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The number of COVID-19 recoveries in Jakarta, Indonesia s capital, touched 337,426, or 96.3 percent of its total 350,425 confirmed cases, as of March 7, or a year since the government announced its first COVID-19 cases.
The capital city recorded 1,809 other recoveries in a single day on Sunday, thereby increasing the total number of recoveries, from 335,617 to 337,426.
The number of active cases dropped by 17, thereby bringing the total active cases to 7,209, from 7,226 on the previous day.
The city has, so far, recorded a total of 350,425 confirmed COVID-19 cases, while the death toll stood at 5,790.