Indonesia Reports Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases in Fourth Day in a Row

Medical workers collect blood samples for serology tests at a Jakarta workplace in South Jakarta on July 30,2020 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)

BY: HERU ANDRIYANTO

AUGUST 23, 2020

Jakarta. Indonesia added 2,037 cases on Sunday to continue a run of more than 2,000 cases each day for the 4th day in a row. Its general cases stood at 153,535, consisting of 6,680 deaths.

East Java and Jakarta have actually ended up being the main driver of a spike in cases at the national level since early this month. While the capital city has the fastest-rising caseload, East Java continued to tape the greatest everyday death toll of the outbreak.

Jakarta still has the fastest-rising caseload with 615 brand-new cases in the day to take its overall to 33,470, consisting of 1,097 deaths. It has added more than 12,000 cases considering that the beginning of the month, in comparison to the 8,200 cases signed up by East Java in the very same duration.

Earlier in the day, East Java became the 2nd province after Jakarta to have reported more than 30,000 cases of coronavirus because the break out. It taped 279 cases on Sunday, the most affordable day-to-day count in three weeks.

However, today’s 19 coronavirus-related deaths again made East Java the leader in the everyday death toll. A total of 2,172 Covid-19 patients have died in the province, almost double the number of fatalities in Jakarta.

Surrounding Central Java is at a remote 3rd with 12,476 cases of the virus, 188 more from a day previously. It also has the third highest Covid-19 deaths of 846.

Only the three provinces reported a three-digit everyday count.

South Sulawesi added simply 33 cases for an overall of 11,470 It has actually reported the tiniest number of cases among the top five of most-affected provinces throughout this month.

West Java reported 68 new cases for a total of 9,283 Covid-19 cases have actually been surging in the country’s greatest province, which has added 2,751 cases because the start of the month, just below those of Jakarta, East Java and Central Java.

The number of cured or discharged Covid-19 clients has leapt by 2,302 in the last 24 hours for a total of 107,500 It’s for the fifth day in a row that recoveries exceeded 2,000 in day and for the 3rd successive day they beat the day-to-day cases.

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