On Friday noon, the government recorded 2,067 new daily confirmed cases, bringing the total tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 6,771,072 since the first case was confirmed on March 2, 2020.

The number of new confirmed cases on Friday was part of an increasing trend after Idul Fitri. On April 23, a day after Idul Fitri, a low number of confirmed cases was recorded at just 384 but this has continued to rise since then.

Daily confirmed cases surpassed 1,000 cases on April 14, while the last time the country reported more than 1,000 cases was four months ago on Dec. 22, 2022.

Health Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Syahril said the recent uptick in cases was not yet dangerous or significant as the current mortality rate and hospital bed occupancy rates from COVID-19 in Indonesia were still below World Health Organization standards.

“There is no need for the public to panic, but we must still be alert especially as this uptick of cases could have been among the elderly and those with comorbidities,” Syahril told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

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He also said that globally, COVID-19 was still a pandemic, so new variants causing a rise in cases were still possible.

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