Indonesia Daily Covid-19 Tally Continues to Pattern Down

A makeshift ICU for Covid-19 clients is developed at Cengkareng Healthcare facility in West Jakarta. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)

Jakarta. The daily count of new Covid-19 cases in Indonesia continues to decrease as the country taped the lowest number in more than 2 months on Sunday.

There have been 7,427 brand-new cases in the past 24 hours– the lowest everyday total since June 9– to bring the overall number of cases to 4,073,831, according to Health Ministry data.

Although the variety of brand-new cases is typically lower throughout weekends due to decreased screening capacity, there has been a constant decrease considering that the peak on July 15, when over 56,000 cases were tape-recorded in a single day.

The government declared previously that it had actually been past the peak of the second wave of infections triggered by the highly contagious Delta variant.

An additional 551 Covid-19 deaths were taped in the 24- hour duration, bringing the overall death toll to 131,923 It’s also the most affordable day-to-day death toll considering that July 4.

The overall variety of active cases falls further to 217,590, getting closer to the pre-Delta alternative levels.

More than 61.6 million people have been partly immunized and 34.9 million fully immunized to date.

The vaccination drive is poised to be in full swing in September, when the nation anticipates to get 80.7 million doses from both federal government purchase and worldwide donation.

A vast majority of the upcoming vaccines will come from China’s Sinovac Biotech, either CoronaVac or its Indonesian variation renamed as Biovac vaccine– which is produced by state-run pharmaceutical business Bio Farma under license from Sinovac.

The government will get 25 million CoronaVac dosages and 23.3 million Biovac dosages next month, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said.

Likewise coming next month are 7.1 million Pfizer doses and 5.4 million AstraZeneca dosages acquired by the federal government, he stated.





Meanwhile, UN-approved multilateral vaccine donor Covax will deliver 19.4 million dosages to Indonesia.

In addition, Indonesia will take contribution of 500,000 dosages from a foreign government, bringing the overall variety of vaccines to 80.7 million for next month.