IDNEWSNOW.COM, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from Australia’s Griffith University Dicky Budiman agreed with Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s statement that the declining number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is attributable to people’s resistance.
” That’s true, the most vital thing that answers the present scenario is that lots of Indonesians have actually acquired resistance, either from natural infection and vaccination,” Dicky informed Pace on Tuesday, October 12, 2021.
According to the independent global health proving ground of the University of Washington, the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessment (IHME), at least 29 percent of Indonesian individuals had been contaminated as of September 27,2021 “This implies, almost 80 million Indonesians got contaminated,” Dicky stated.
The figure was far greater than the COVID-19 case numbers reported by the government at 4,228,552 cases since October 11,2021 The outcomes of the IHME study, Dicky believed, showed that Indonesia had bad screening and tracing capability so that many cases were not identified.
Dicky reminded all celebrations not to remove guards following the dramatic decline in cases. “Remember, our existing condition is not sustainable since there is a potential for brand-new variations and drop in resistance, perhaps in the next 9 or 6 months. The information undoubtedly require more research study,” he said.
He likewise advised the federal government to keep accelerating the vaccinations, increasing 3T (screening, tracing, and treatment), and strengthening health procedures of 5M (using masks, cleaning hands, preserving range, preventing crowds, and restricting mobilization).
The COVID-19 pandemic situation in Indonesia could not yet be said to be under control due to the fact that the virus death rate is still higher than the global rate. Besides, Indonesia is still experiencing community transmission and the total vaccination coverage is not yet above 50 percent.
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