Highest record adds 1,114 cases, long vacation group

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The number of Covid-19 positive patients in Jakarta increased by 1,114 on Sunday (8/30/2020). So the backlog of Covid-19 positive patients at DKI Jakarta to date is 39,280, since the first case was announced on March 2, 2020.

The increase in cases is the highest number since the appearance of the Covid-19 case in the capital. The record for the highest number of cases was originally recorded on August 29 with 888 people.

DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office Head of Disease Prevention and Control Dwi Oktavia said the high number of cases added today is because 385 cases are the accumulation of data from 7 days before they were just reported. .

This means that the data is patients exposed to Covid-19 during the long weekend (long weekend) between August 16 and 22, 2020.

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“70 percent of the positive cases today are cases collected by samples on August 24 and 25, 2020. If you count down, the most frequent incubation period is 6 days, then patients access the examination of CRP of 1 to 2 days. Then, the highest transmission period occurs at 16 days. August 17, 2020, “explained Dwi.

He explained that up to 30,134 people were declared cured with a cure rate of 76.7 percent.

Then 1,186 people died with a death rate of 3 percent and 7,960 people continued to be treated or isolated.

Meanwhile, 4,872 people tested with the method were registered today. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and 51,148 people in the last week.

The PCR test in Jakarta was carried out in collaboration with 54 laboratories from the Regional Government, the Central Government, BUMN and the private sector.

“By positivity rate o The percentage of positive cases in the last week in Jakarta was 9.7 percent, while the percentage of positive cases in total was 6.3 percent, “Dwi said.