Jakarta recorded the highest daily addition of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 2,060 people contracting the infection as of 12 p.m. local time on Thursday, the COVID-19 task force reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jakarta was followed by West Java, which recorded 676 cases, Banten (472 cases), East Java (269 cases), and Central Java (145 cases), data from the COVID-19 task force received here on Thursday showed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The new cases took the number of daily national COVID-19 cases to 4,039, bringing the total tally since March 2020 to 6,301,523.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jakarta also recorded the most daily recoveries at 2,418, followed by West Java (982), East Java (441), Banten (324), and Bali (234).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On the national scale, the daily recovery rate increased by 5,250, bringing the total count to 6,092,306. Meanwhile, 21 deaths were reported on Thursday\u20146 in East Java province; 5 in Central Java; 2 deaths each in Jakarta, Banten, and Bali; and 1 death each in Riau, South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and Aceh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The COVID-19 task force said that the number of active cases\u2014including COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment and self-isolation as of Thursday\u2014stood at 51,900, a decline of 1,232 compared to the previous day (August 17).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In addition, the number of suspected cases was recorded at 4,680.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
These results were obtained based on the testing of 81,697 specimens from 35,325 people that were examined at hundreds of laboratories across Indonesia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The positivity rate for daily specimens was 9.59 percent, and the daily positivity rate for people was 11.43 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Coordinator of the expert team of the COVID-19 task force, Prof. Wiku Adisasmito, said that the current COVID-19 situation in Indonesia is considerably better compared to last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Indonesia keeps on showing improvement in terms of the number of cases and handling of COVID-19 to date,” he noted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This can be gauged from data comparing the COVID-19 situation on August 17, 2021, and August 17, 2022, which shows a 53-percent decline in daily positive cases this year, Adisasmito said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This year, there were around 5 thousand daily cases, far lower than the 11 thousand cases per day recorded in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Antara News<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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