Indonesia has seen a considerable decrease in active COVID-19 cases, the National COVID-19 job force stated on Thursday.
Active cases are the number of validated cases minus the number of recuperated cases and deaths. The figure represents the variety of cases still considered to be infectious.
The job force’s representative and specialists team organizer, Wiku Adisasmito, said in a virtual interview that as of Thursday the country had 63,576 active cases, 16.8 percent of the overall variety of COVID-19 cases confirmed up until now, including this figure was lower than the 21.9 percent taped globally.
Meanwhile, the variety of retrieved clients has actually likewise increased to 301,006
Wiku explained that 91.26 percent of verified cases were active in March and that this percentage had actually reduced to 81.57 percent in April and 71.35 percent in May before dropping to 23.74 percent last month.
” We hope it will continue to decrease till there disappear active cases and all clients have actually recovered,” he said, saying the number of active cases might be lowered by curbing the spread of the virus.
” Everyone can take part in minimizing the number by practicing the ‘3M’ health protocols, menggunakan masker [mask wearing], mencuci tangan[hand-washing] and menjaga jarak [social distancing],” he added.
However, regardless of the substantial drop in active cases, Wiku shared that 12 cities still had more than 1,000 active cases for weeks.
Among the 12 cities, Padang in West Sumatra and Pekanbaru in Riau have the greatest variety of active cases with 2,816 and 2,909, respectively.
” These are huge cities where the economy has actually been actively running,” he stated.
Wiku urged the regional administrations in these cities to work more difficult to reduce the number of active cases by strictly monitoring the general public’s compliance with health protocols.
It has actually been more than seven months since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced the very first COVID-19 cases in Indonesia.
Since then, the general public has ended up being more accustomed with the 3M health procedures.
An online study carried out by Stats Indonesia (BPS) from Sept. 7 to 14, involving 90,967 respondents throughout the archipelago, exposed that more Indonesians were now adhering to requirements to wear face masks in public.
BPS head Suhariyanto stated the rate of public compliance with mask using requirements had actually increased 8 percent considering that April, keeping in mind that compliance with hand-washing and physical-distancing procedures had rather decreased.
Therefore, it is necessary to increase public awareness about the requirement to thoroughly follow health protocols.
” Preferably, these three specifications– mask wearing, hand cleaning and physical distancing– need to be parallel,” stated Suhariyanto during a press conference livestreamed on the National Disaster Mitigation Firm’s (BNPB) main YouTube channel last month.
” After all, what good does using a mask do without regularly cleaning our hands and keeping a safe physical distance?” he added. (jes)
Editor’s note: This post becomes part of a public project by the COVID-19 job force to raise people’s awareness about the pandemic.
