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YAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan disagreed with the central government’s statement that Indonesia had passed the critical phase of Covid-19.

This was broadcast by Anies in an interview with Australian media, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

He argues that reports adding Covid-19 cases in Indonesia delivered every day cannot be used as a reference to declare that Indonesia has passed a critical phase.

“I am not sure if the data distribution (Covid-19) has decreased (the critical phase has passed). We have to wait the next few weeks to conclude if the trend has tilted or will continue to rise,” Anies said in the Sydney article. Morning Herald. which was published on May 7th.

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DKI Jakarta remains the province with the largest Covid-19 case in Indonesia since the Covid-19 outbreak was revealed on March 2, 2020.

Since then, DKI Jakarta has always been in the first position.

Data from May 7, 2020, there were at least 4,775 positive cases with 430 patients dead.

While the recovering patients reached 718 people.

JEO Kompas.com The trend of adding Covid-19 cases daily in Jakarta. Data from March 27 to May 12, 2020. Viewed on the chart, data movement remains unstable, sometimes skyrocketing, the next day it may drop dramatically right away.

Previously, the chairman of the Doni Monardo Acceleration Management Covid-19 Working Group claimed that large-scale social restrictions or PSBBs in DKI Jakarta managed to reduce the addition of the number of Covid-19 positive cases by 39 percent.

That, Doni said, can be seen in the ratio of positive cases in Jakarta to total cases nationwide.

In fact, the Covid-19 Management Acceleration Task Force also predicted that the reduction of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) would take place in June or July 2020.

Therefore, life will return to normal after the Covid-19 pandemic in August 2020.

Also read: Is it true that the Covid-19 positive case in DKI Jakarta has decreased as the Government claims?

However, once again, Anies disagreed with the central government’s statement.