Government confirms increased incorporation of Covid-19 cases based on new data

YAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The government spokesman for the management of the Corona virus Achmad Yurianto said that the addition of 689 positive confirmation cases of Covid-19 delivered on Wednesday (05/13/2020) came from new data.

According to him, the government uses methods real time Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to identify suspected cases of Covid-19 in individuals.

“If it is positive (the result of the inspection), it will be announced immediately in a positive way. Because it uses real time PCR, “Yuri said when confirmed Kompas.comWednesday

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Yuri ensured that the method for identifying and registering new Covid-19 cases in Indonesia still used the same method.

Indonesia recorded a record of adding the highest positive Covid-19 cases in 24 hours.

On Wednesday (05/13/2020), there were 689 positive patients registered for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours from all hospitals in Indonesia.

With these additions, there are a total of 15,438 Covid-19 cases in the country.

Based on the notes Kompas.comThis is the largest addition of cases in the Covid-19 case trip in Indonesia since March 2, 2020.

Previously, the highest addition was recorded on Saturday (09/05/2020), that is, up to 533 cases in 24 hours.

Then on May 5, 2020, 484 cases were also added.