West Java Guv Ridwan Kamil has blamed Thursday’s spike of 1,648 everyday cases in the province on data disparities.
The governor said that 1,000 of the 1,648 cases reported by the Health Ministry came from outdated data.
” So we can not call it a surge,” Ridwan said on Friday, adding a comparable concern was reported in Central Java.
He explained that in order to submit a case report, the regional administration had to pass through 2 steps, with the initial step including reports on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) screening and the 2nd including the submission of all outcomes to the COVID-19 data system, which is connected to the Health Ministry’s server.
” The other day I saw that Depok had really uploaded 100 cases, but it stopped working to submit them. Some [other regions] also reported 100 cases however it came out various when it was announced,” Ridwan said.
He stated he hoped the ministry could enhance the information matching system, adding that he chose to use data submitted by cities and regencies for COVID-19 handling in West Java.
As of Friday, West Java’s COVID-19 Information and Coordination Center reported an overall of 55,807 validated cases across 27 regencies and cities with 46,402 healings and 947 deaths.
The region likewise saw 11,325 new validated cases from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, marking approximately 4,770 day-to-day cases.
On Thursday, Indonesia broke its own single-day record for day-to-day COVID-19 infections with 8,369 new cases. The latest spike brought an overall 557,877 validated cases to the across the country tally, including 17,355 deaths and 462,553 recoveries.
Papua tape-recorded the greatest single-day jump in the archipelago with 1,775 extra cases. Considerable spikes were likewise reported in West Java and Jakarta with 1,648 and 1,153 cases respectively.
National COVID-19 task force representative Wiku Adisasmito stated the high number was triggered by a lag in real-time data synchronization in between the central federal government and regional administrations.
” For instance, Papua has reported 1,755 new cases, which is the cumulative of favorable cases logged because Nov. 19 till today,” Wiku stated throughout an online interview on Thursday.
On The Other Hand, amidst the federal government’s robust campaign on coronavirus health procedures, a survey carried out between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1 indicated a declining trend in the general public compliance rate with the face mask and physical distancing policies.
According to antaranews.com, an online study by the government over the long vacation weekend at the end of October discovered on Nov. 1 that 59.32 percent of participants stated they wore masks and 43.46 percent said they physically distanced. Both figures saw a constant decline through to Nov.27 (adi/dpk)
Editor’s note: This short article is part of a public campaign by the COVID-19 task force to raise individuals’s awareness about the pandemic.
