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View all search resultsCOVID-19 figures keep getting worse: President
Indonesia's recovery rate has decreased to 83.44 percent from 84.03 last week, suggesting that the country was unable to properly handle the pandemic, Jokowi said.
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has once again reminded the public of the risks of COVID-19 infection, after the national active case rate reached 13.41 percent, up by nearly 1 percentage point from last week.
The rate of active cases is calculated by subtracting the number of COVID-19 recoveries and deaths from the number of confirmed cases. The statistic represents the number of cases still considered to be infectious.
“Let us all be more careful because as per Nov. 29, our active case rate has increased to 13.41 percent,” Jokowi said during his opening speech of a Cabinet meeting in Jakarta on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
Indonesia’s active case rate last week was 12.78 percent. Its recovery rate has decreased to 83.44 percent from 84.03 last week, suggesting that the country was unable to properly handle the pandemic, Jokowi said.
“These [figures] have gotten worse because we saw more new confirmed cases [this week] compared to the previous weeks.”
The President specifically pointed at Jakarta and Central Java as the provinces that had recorded the highest new confirmed cases recently. On Nov. 21, Jakarta saw 1,579 new cases in a single day, while Central Java recorded 1,362 cases only on Nov. 13.
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