Jakarta (VNA) – The worst-case COVID-19 scenariohas not happened to Indonesia, according to Minister of Health Budi GunadiSadikin.
Speaking at a press conference on the President Office’sYoutube channel, the minister said that the country estimated 70,000additional cases per day in the worst-case scenario, but until now a maximum of 50,000 casesare reported per day.
Budi said the daily case record, which was still below thepredicted figure, occurred when the government had increased the number oftesting or examination of specimens every day.
Currently, Indonesia’s testing capacity has reached 200,000samples per day, doubling the earlier figure of 60,000-70,000 earlier. The countryis working to increase the capacity to 300,000-400,000 samples per dayfollowing the request of President Joko Widodo.
At the same time, the ratio of occupation in COVID-19treatment hospitals has reduced to about 60 percent in Jakarta, 40 percent inBandung and 82 percent in East Java.
However, the minister still warned local people to keep vigilant againstthe pandemic.
Meanwhile, a specimen study has shown that thehighly-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has spread almost evenlythroughout Indonesia, according to Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a spokesperson of the Health Ministry.
She was quoted by Antara News Agency as saying that the Delta variant dominates86 percent of the specimen sequencing conducted in the last 60 days in 24provinces, so it can be said that it has spread almost evenly throughoutIndonesia.
The genomic sequencing laboratory network under the commandof the Health Research and Development Agency (Litbangkes) continues to explorethe distribution pattern of the COVID-19 variants in Indonesia.
From early 2021 to July 28, Indonesia has reported 3,651 genome sequencingresults into a global database. The study results showed that the countryshould be vigilant against three out of four variants of the coronavirus,namely the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants.
The report deserves an attention, given the potential fortransmission of the COVID-19 in Indonesia is still very high, she noted.
To stem the spread of COVID-19, the Indonesian government isstrengthening testing and tracing, especially in densely populated settlements,while speeding up vaccination activities./.
Speaking at a press conference on the President Office’sYoutube channel, the minister said that the country estimated 70,000additional cases per day in the worst-case scenario, but until now a maximum of 50,000 casesare reported per day.
Budi said the daily case record, which was still below thepredicted figure, occurred when the government had increased the number oftesting or examination of specimens every day.
Currently, Indonesia’s testing capacity has reached 200,000samples per day, doubling the earlier figure of 60,000-70,000 earlier. The countryis working to increase the capacity to 300,000-400,000 samples per dayfollowing the request of President Joko Widodo.
At the same time, the ratio of occupation in COVID-19treatment hospitals has reduced to about 60 percent in Jakarta, 40 percent inBandung and 82 percent in East Java.
However, the minister still warned local people to keep vigilant againstthe pandemic.
Meanwhile, a specimen study has shown that thehighly-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has spread almost evenlythroughout Indonesia, according to Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a spokesperson of the Health Ministry.
She was quoted by Antara News Agency as saying that the Delta variant dominates86 percent of the specimen sequencing conducted in the last 60 days in 24provinces, so it can be said that it has spread almost evenly throughoutIndonesia.
The genomic sequencing laboratory network under the commandof the Health Research and Development Agency (Litbangkes) continues to explorethe distribution pattern of the COVID-19 variants in Indonesia.
From early 2021 to July 28, Indonesia has reported 3,651 genome sequencingresults into a global database. The study results showed that the countryshould be vigilant against three out of four variants of the coronavirus,namely the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants.
The report deserves an attention, given the potential fortransmission of the COVID-19 in Indonesia is still very high, she noted.
To stem the spread of COVID-19, the Indonesian government isstrengthening testing and tracing, especially in densely populated settlements,while speeding up vaccination activities./.
VNA
