The capital, home to about 10 million people and three times that figure when counting those who live in surrounding towns, has been the epicenter of an outbreak that has pushed hospitals to the brink, with desperate scenes of people queuing for oxygen and being treated in parking lots.

But over two weeks Jakarta's daily cases dropped from 14,619 on July 12 to 2,662 on July 25, according to city data, while pressure on COVID-19 referral hospitals has eased.

"The situation is very different," Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said in a video address on Monday.

"The hallways in front of emergency [hospital] units were always full [...]. Now they're mostly empty," he said.

The positivity rate, or the percentage of people testing positive to COVID-19, almost halved from 31.2 percent on July 15, to 15.9 percent on July 25, the data showed.

The bed occupancy rate in Jakarta hospitals has also fallen to 73 percent from 90 percent earlier this month, although the occupancy rate in intensive care remained high, at 89 percent, official data showed.

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