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Jakarta. The increase in coronavirus cases in Indonesia has reached a new level since the beginning of the month with a daily total of 3,349 cases on average, compared to the average of 2,143 cases last month.
The country has racked up 50,234 cases from September 1 to the middle of the month, bringing its total to 225,030 on Tuesday.
The total number includes 8,965 deaths, 124 more than yesterday. It was the highest daily death toll in almost 15 days.
The dramatic increase in daily cases is mainly due to spiraling transmissions in Jakarta, the only province that has achieved four-digit daily increases.
The central government approved the reimposition of the semi-confinement state in the capital and helped expand isolation facilities involving hotel rooms and additional capacity of the makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Kemayoran, central Jakarta. There are currently around 11,000 active cases of the virus in Jakarta and the city government forces all infected people to quarantine themselves in government-designated facilities under the new restriction policy.
Jakarta has registered 1,076 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its total number of confirmed cases to 56,175. It shares the highest number of daily deaths with East Java, with 32 deaths for a total of 1,450.
Jakarta has added more than 16,000 cases to date, more than three times the number of cases in East Java during the same period.
East Java has the second highest number of cases, with a total of 38,809 as of Tuesday, but it leads the national number of deaths from Covid-10 with 2,832 deaths. The daily average in East Java has slowed slightly since the beginning of the month.
However, Central Java and West Java have seen a sudden increase in daily increases.
Central Java has had an average of 276 cases since September 1, compared to the daily average of 143 in August. It has a total of 18,111 cases, including 1,165 deaths. East Java, Jakarta and Central Java are the only provinces that have reported more than 1,000 deaths since the outbreak.
West Java reported 347 new cases for a total of 14,938.
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Aside from the top four provinces, Riau has reported the highest daily number throughout this month in a recent spike.
Riau’s monthly average is 147 cases to emerge as the newest hotspot in the Indonesian outbreak. The province in the center of the island of Sumatra has added 2,209 cases during the first half of the month, accounting for more than half of the total 4,054 cases.
Aceh, in the extreme north of Sumatra, has seen a triple-digit daily total for six consecutive days, indicating a potential as the next hotspot. The province has a total of 3,032 cases as of Tuesday.
The daily total in Bali has dropped to 68 cases, the first time it saw cases below triple digits in weeks, but overall it averaged 145 cases in September. In total, the tourist island has 7,380 cases, which places it among the eight provinces with the most cases.
Other hotspots such as South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan, North Sumatra and East Kalimantan also saw an increase in the number of cases compared to the previous month.
South Sulawesi added 107 new cases for a total of 13,583, the highest number outside of the big four.
South Kalimantan follows with a total of 9,500 cases, but the province managed to keep the daily average within double digits.
The transmission rate in North Sumatra has surpassed that of South Sulawesi and South Kalimantan. It reported 249 more cases Tuesday, its biggest increase in a single day, for a total of 8,808.
Overall, Indonesia has 55,000 active cases in the 34 provinces.
