The city government said massive tests cause Covid cases in Surabaya to skyrocket.



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Surabaya, CNN Indonesia – Municipal Government (Municipal Government) Surabaya call a positive case corona virus (Covid-19) jumped significantly during the implementation of Large-Scale Social Constraints (PSBB) because the tests were carried out on a massive scale.

Deputy Public Relations Coordinator of Task Force Surabaya Covid-19 for Manipulation Acceleration M Fikser said his party conducted massive tests through rapid tests and PCR samples.

“The figures that are happening right now due to the efforts of the Surabaya city government that we have done with rapid tests and large-scale samples,” said Fikser, at the Surabaya city council, on Saturday (9/5).



Currently, Fikser said, there are 592 corona virus positive patients in Surabaya. Some of the figures were obtained after the Surabaya city government conducted a rapid test of 4,250 people and a swab test of 1,083 people.
“In Surabaya, it was confirmed to be 592. Therefore, the Surabaya city government has conducted rapid tests on 4,250 people. Then we have also cleaned 1,083 people,” Fikser said.

According to the rapid test that was conducted on 4,250 people, Fikser said, 356 of them showed reactive or positive results. To them then done.

“From the data we received 356 of the rapid test results, we also performed a rapid test on families that were closely related to confirmed families, making the total number of 1,083 [tes swab]”, said.

The fixers detailed the 1,083 swabs, 230 of which were made in the March-April period, with 61 confirmed positive.

While in the period from May 1 to 8, 805 swabs were analyzed, and 48 of them were confirmed as positive. While the rest are still in the laboratory testing phase.

“It means that in the future there could be an increase in confirmed results, because there are 805 swab results that have not yet been published,” Fikser said.

Earlier, positive cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were recorded in Surabaya, East Java, to continue increasing in the 10 days of PSBB implementation. In fact, the increase is greater than Gresik and Sidoarjo, which also implements PSBB.

“Surabaya rises, his efforts must be much higher than Gresik and Sidoarjo, so I’m sorry, this study from the scientific side, has nothing to do with the political side, in scientific terms,” ​​said the president of the Force. Healing Cluster Task Force for Acceleration Acceleration Covid Handling from East Java, Joni Wahyuhadi, in Surabaya, Thursday (7/5).

In Joni’s note, before the PSBB counted from April 20 to 27, the number of cases in Surabaya increased by 74 cases. While during the PSBB implementation from May 28 to 7, Surabaya experienced an increase of 218 cases.

Joni also explained that the number of cases in Surabaya reached 592 patients as of Thursday (5/7). Superior to Sidoarjo Regency with 152 patients and Gresik with a total of 37 positive patients.

Also with the case of the mortality rate. In Surabaya 78 people died. The number is more than 16 people in Sidoarjo and 6 people in Gresik.

“Death is really extreme, in Surabaya the highest increase, followed by Sidoarjo and Gresik, deaths are also increasing,” said Joni, who is also RSUD Director Dr. Soetomo, Surabaya. (frd / osc)

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