Bogor – Some 336 healthcare employees contracted COVID-19 and fell ill, therefore causing the Bogor municipality taking the decision to close down eight health facilities, the city’s mayor, Bima Arya Sugiarto, specified.
” Presently, 336 health care workers in Bogor City have checked positive for COVID-19, and they are ill,” Sugiarto kept in mind during a see to the Marzoeki Mahdi Health Center (RSMM) here on Sunday.
The majority of the affected health care workers worked at RSMM, he remarked.
” Owing to the reality that numerous health care workers were exposed to COVID-19, the handling of COVID-19 patients is decreasing over the recently. The number of COVID-19 cases has actually increased to 78 percent,” he kept in mind.
Sugiarto stated that subsequently, the scenario of COVID-19 cases in Bogor City had actually raised even higher concerns. The bed occupancy rate (BOR) for COVID-19 patients at 21 referral medical facilities in Bogor City is nearly full.
In truth, Bogor City Health center, which offers 120 beds for COVID-19 clients, is totally occupied.
” The scenario today is that it is almost beyond our scope to manage it,” he specified.
Sugiarto kept in mind that the portion boost in COVID-19 cases in Bogor City this week had reached 78 percent, while the death rate for COVID-19 cases today had actually reached 125 percent.
” These numbers are already extremely uneasy,” he explained.
To deal with the extreme spike in COVID-19 cases, Bogor authorities have actually imposed stricter restriction procedures.
More stringent micro-scale limitations on public activities (PPKM) have actually been enforced at the area level.
In the meantime, Tempo media estimated a report by the Indonesian Physician’s Association (IDI) that a total of 405 Indonesian medical professionals had died of COVID-19 given that the government revealed its very first case on March 2,2020
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