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Indonesia hits highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases, deaths
The increase brings the country’s tally to 184,268 COVID-19 cases, with 7,750 fatalities and 132,055 recoveries.
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Last respects: Wearing protective gear, relatives visit the new grave of a COVID-19 patient at the Pondok Ranggon cemetery in East Jakarta on Wednesday. (JP/P.J. Leo)
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ndonesia saw another daily record in confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities on Thursday, recording 3,622 new infections and 134 deaths linked to the disease.
The increase brings the country’s tally to 184,268 COVID-19 cases, with 7,750 fatalities and 132,055 recoveries.
Jakarta, the hardest-hit region and the epicenter of the disease, recorded the highest number of new infections with 1,359, a new daily record spike and a jump from 1,053 cases announced the previous day.
East Java followed with 377 new confirmed cases, then Central Java with 242, West Java with 238 and Bali with 174 cases.
Indonesia now has the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia after the Philippines, which has recorded 228,403 infections as of Thursday, according to worldometers.info. Indonesia currently ranks 23rd out of 215 countries worldwide.
East Java recorded the highest number of deaths linked to COVID-19 with 34 patients dying on Thursday, followed by East Kalimantan with 27, Central Java with 18 and Jakarta with 15 deaths.
The latest figures continue the upward COVID-19 trend in the archipelago.
Last week, the country broke transmission records three days in a row, exceeding the spike observed in early August as health authorities confirmed thousands of new cases every day.
The capital logs in the highest daily increase, with 1,114 new infections recorded on Sunday following two long weekends.
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, however, assured on Monday that COVID-19 transmission in the capital was under control, attributing the spike to aggressive testing and recent consecutive holidays that caused an increase in mobility.
Editor's note: Paragraph six of this article has been edited.
