COVID-19 cases set records over three consecutive days in Indonesia

Restricted restrictions are used in the Java-Bali provinces, as the provinces satisfy one of the four set criteria

Jakarta – Indonesia, on Saturday, added 10,046 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, continuing to set records over 3 consecutive days, after it recorded 9,321 cases on January 7 and 10,617 on January 8, 2021.

This has actually brought the total case tally to 818,386 cases. Total recoveries have actually reached 673,511, while the death toll stands at 23,947, as 6,628 people recuperated and 194 others yielded to the illness in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Task Force for COVID-19 Managing released on Saturday.

Presently, Indonesia has 120,928 active cases or patients going through independent care and seclusion, after being validated to have actually contracted COVID-19 69,865 individuals are classified as being suspect.

The government today examined 57,666 specimens from 39,508 people in 566 laboratories throughout Indonesia, therefore bringing the number of analyzed specimens to 7,836,984 from 5,232,921 individuals, after the very first 2 cases of COVID-19 surfaced in the country on March 2, 2020.

The nation’s COVID-19 positivity rate has reached 15.6 percent.

Provinces reporting the greatest variety of brand-new cases include Jakarta, with 2,753 cases; followed by 1,731 in West Java; 1,033 in Central Java; 994 in East Java; and 580 in South Sulawesi.

Jakarta has actually signed up an overall of 203,411 cases and 181,535 healings, while East Java has the highest number of deaths, at 6,380

In the meantime, Collaborating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto spoke of constraints being tightened up in specific locations in all 6 provinces on Java Island and Bali Province for Jan 11-25, 2021, in a quote to counter a spike in COVID-19 cases.

” Minimal limitations are used in the Java-Bali provinces, as the provinces satisfy among the 4 set parameters,” Hartarto stated throughout a virtual interview here on Wednesday.

Restrictions are to be tightened up in Jakarta and its adjacent areas, consisting of Bogor City, Bogor District, Depok, Bekasi City, and Bekasi’s districts, the minister kept in mind, in addition to partly in Banten, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Yogyakarta and Bali Provinces.

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