Semarang City Becomes RI’s Highest Active Corona Case Area

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

The Covid-19 Acceleration and Management Working Group registered Cities Semarang, Central Java as a region with active positive virus cases COVID-19 the highest national level.

“What you have to pay attention to is that there are 11 districts / cities with more than 1,000 active cases, Semarang City 2,591 cases,” said Wiku Adisasmito, spokesperson for the Working Group for the Acceleration and Management of Covid-19 at a press conference. broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Presidential Secretariat on Tuesday. (8/9).

Meanwhile, for the second place, namely the city of Medan with 1,454 active cases, the third place is in East Jakarta with a total of 1,429 active cases.

Also, almost all districts / cities in Jakarta are registered as areas with 1000 active cases, except for the Thousand Islands District.

For Jakarta, Wiku also admitted that the capital has so far implemented a number of mitigation measures. Among them is that DKI Jakarta has made independent isolation facilities in 2 towers in Wisma Atlet that can be used by Covid-19 patients with the category of people without symptoms (OTG), of course, access to the facilities must go through recommendations of the puskesmas.

“The DKI Regional Secretary has also issued a circular 02 / SE / 202 regarding the Regulations of the ASN Working Mechanism and this will be implemented immediately. Therefore, this is an instrument used by the regional government to control their cases.” said Wiku.

Furthermore, Wiku also explained that there were 310 districts / cities out of 514 that had cases of less than 50 cases, that is, 60.31 percent. There are also 74 districts / cities in the country that do not have active Covid-19 cases.

“This must be continuously pushed to be even lower,” he added.

Regarding the confirmed positive cases of corona in Indonesia according to the data of Tuesday (8/9) through the number of 200,035 cases. Of that figure, the accumulated recovered was 142,958 people, while another 8,230 died.

(kha / ugo)