Latest COVID-19 Information in Jakarta as of March 27, 2021

Jakarta Government urges all people to be more disciplined in implementing 3M health protocols because COVID-19 positive cases are still increasing. Although the government continues to intensify 3T action, it needs cooperation from the community to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.

For information, 316,978 PCR tests have been carried out per 1 million population

Jakarta Health Agency's Disease Prevention and Control Division Head, Dwi Oktavia stated, based on the latest data from Jakarta Health Agency, PCR test has been carried out to 16,362 specimens.

From that amount, 13,086 specimens have been tested today to diagnose new cases with total of 1,354 positive results and 11,732 negative results. Besides, Antigen test was also conducted to 3,790 people with 104 positive results and 3,686 negative results.

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"For information, 316,978 PCR tests have been carried out per 1 million population. While the number of people tested for PCR in the past week reached 73,431. Number of positive cases increased by 681 cases thus in total it reached 7,690 active cases as of today (including people who are still being treated/isolated)," she explained as quoted in Jakarta PPID Press Release.

Meanwhile for total confirmed cases in Jakarta as of today reached 378,222 cases. It should be noted that positive antigen test results in Jakarta were not included in total positive cases because all were reconfirmed by PCR.

From total positive cases, 364,251 people recovered with recovery rate of 96.3% and 6,281 people died with mortality rate of 1.7%. While mortality rate in Indonesia reached 2.7%

For positivity rate or positive cases percentage in the past week in Jakarta reached 12.6%, while the percentage of positive cases in total reached 11.2%. WHO also set standard positive cases percentage no more than 5%.

Vaccination process is still ongoing. Vaccination target for stage 1 and 2 (for health workers, elderly and public servants) is 3,000,689 people. Currently, first dose vaccination has been given to 1,092,686 people (36.4%) and second dose vaccination to 343,272 people (11.4%).

In detail, for health workers, first dose vaccination has been given to 123,199 people (109.7%) and second dose to 102,584 people (91.3%) with total vaccination target 112,301 people.

For elderly group, first dose vaccination has been given to 414,506 people (45.5%) and second dose to 29,341 people (3.2%) with total vaccination target 911,631 people. In public service group, first dose vaccination has been given to 554,981 people (28.1%) and second dose to 211,347 people (10.7%) with total vaccination target 1,976,757 people.

Jakarta Satpol PP also gives sanction for anyone who don't wear mask and violate health protocols, and intensifies guest book data collection. It is hoped that people can be more disciplined in implementing health protocols and participating in breaking the chain of COVID-19 transmission.

Based on Jakarta Satpol PP's daily report as of March 26, 2021 which submitted at 20:00, Satpol PP had caught 2,081 residents who didn't wear masks. From that number, officers imposed social work sanction to 2,049 violators and administrative fines to 32 violators with total Rp 5,050,000.     

They also monitored 304 restaurants and cafes. As the result, 8 business place that violated regulation were given written warning and 3 were dismissed. While 293 business places didn't commit violations.

Satpol PP also carried out health protocols monitoring in 368 workplaces and industries. As the result, 34 of them were given written warnings, and 1 was subjected to fine Rp 1,000,000. While no violations were found in 333 workplaces.

Jakarta Government advised people who want to enter Jakarta to carry out self-examination for COVID-19 through JakCLM feature at JAKI application. By using JakCLM, people can get information about COVID-19 risks and various recommendations according to the risks they have.

People's contribution in filling JakCLM can help Jakarta Government in preventing COVID-19 spread in Jakarta.

Jakarta Provincial Government is still opening opportunity for residents who want to provide assistance to the others who affected by COVID-19 through Large-scale Social Collaboration (KSBB) Program. Residents can provide assistance in form of staple food, ready meals, or funds. Detailed information regarding KSBB can be accessed via site corona.jakarta.go.id/kolaborasi.