The West Java administration has asked the central government for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to increase the province’s COVID-19 screening capacity.
Guv Ridwan Kamil said the administration looked for to increase West Java ' s testing ratio to a minimum of 1 percent– 500,000 tests out of the province’s 50 million people– in accordance with World Health Company suggestions.
” We have actually managed to test 50,000 samples per week, however we ' re expected to double that number. For that reason, we’ve asked for assistance from the central government,” Ridwan said on Thursday.
The West Java COVID-19 task force, he said, had been prompting the central federal government to assist the province increase its testing capacity given that August.
The task force requested 250,000 PCR test kits from the National Disaster Mitigation Company (BNPB) in early September and requested authorization to permit personal laboratories to run the tests.
Ridwan said West Java had the second-highest PCR testing rate in the country, after Jakarta.
However, the province ' s checking rate has been varying.
According to Health Ministry information, since Sept. 7, West Java had actually just checked 301 people per 1 million, far below other provinces such as Jakarta (3,048 tests per million people), East Kalimantan (2,517 tests per million), Yogyakarta (1,198 tests per million) and South Kalimantan (1,128 tests per million).
According to the administration ' s Info and Coordination Center (Pikobar), West Java handled to test 50,000 samples in the week of Sept. 1 to Sept. 7.
In the 2nd week of September, just 25,686 samples were tested. (nal)
