Covid-19 Daily New Cases in Indonesia Is Now the fifth Highest worldwide

A patient comes out of a makeshift ICU for Covid-19 patients in Cengkareng Medical facility in West Jakarta on June 24,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)

Jakarta Indonesia has reported 20,574 brand-new day-to-day cases and 355 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, positioning it among the leading 5 nations with the highest day-to-day number of cases worldwide after Brazil, India, Columbia, and Argentina, data gathered by stats site Worldometer showed.

The most populous country in Southeast Asia was seeing a significant increase in the number of cases in the past week, rising by more than 42 percent compared to a week previously, a rate that the country has actually never seen since the early stage of the pandemic, the Health Ministry information revealed.

Even during its previous rise and peak in January, Indonesia only saw a weekly boost of 21-27 percent.

Indonesia shared a comparable upward trajectory with Brazil and Colombia, while new cases in India and Argentina were going down. Information from Oxford-based research institute Our World in Information revealed.

The real-time reproduction rates (R)– an epidemiological procedure of the number of people are likely to be contaminated by an active client– in these three nations were still above one. A reading above one means the illness will continue to spread in the population, while a reading listed below one suggests it will ultimately diminish.

Relative to population, the brand-new cases in Indonesia were even worse than in India. The Southeast Asian country now has 50 new cases per million individuals, compared to India’s 39.6. It is 553, 403, and 363 per million individuals in Columbia, Argentina, and Brazil, respectively.

Covid-19 New Cases, Deaths and Reproduction Rates on Thursday

Source: Worldometer, Our World in Information

Wiku Adisasmito, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Covid-19 Dealing With Task Force, stated in a declaration on Thursday that the brand-new cases increase in Indonesia has actually been “substantial.”

He stated five provinces in Java, Indonesia’s most populous island, drove up the spike in Covid-19 cases. On Thursday, Jakarta contributed 7,505 new cases or 36 percent of the national figure. Central Java contributed 21 percent, followed by West Java (15 percent), East Java (4.6 percent), and Yogyakarta (3.8 percent).