Jakarta's Latest Official COVID-19 Figures as of June 18

The Jakarta COVID-19 Quick Handling Task Force announces the latest information of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases as of June 18.

The number of people tested last week has reached 95,020

Jakarta Health Agency's Disease Prevention and Control Division Head Dwi Oktavia Tatri Lestari stated, based on the latest data, the swab tests had been carried out on 24,812 specimens. 17,368 of them were to diagnose new cases with 4,737 positive and 12,631 negative results. In addition, an antigen test was also held today, where 4,554 were tested, with 455 positive results and 4,099 negative results.

"The WHO test target is 1,000 people who are tested by PCR per million population per week (not specimens), meaning that the WHO target for Jakarta is a minimum of 10,645 people tested per week. This target has been surpassed by Jakarta for some time. The number of people tested last week has reached 95,020, while 393,253 people have undergone the swab tests," she expressed, as quoted by Jakarta's PPID press release, Friday (6/18).

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As for the number of active cases in Jakarta, date is 24,511 people who are undergoing self-isolation at home (including data of athlete's homestead) or increased to 2,173 cases. While the total number of confirmation cases in Jakarta to date was 463,552 cases.

Of these cases, 431,264 people were cured with a cure rate reaching 93.0% and 7,777 people died with a world with a death rate of 1.7%, while Indonesia's death rate was 2.8%. The positivity rate in the last week in Jakarta was 21.8%, while Indonesia was 11.1%. WHO also set a standard percentage of positive cases of no more than 5%.

Meanwhile, the vaccination process was still ongoing. The number of vaccination targets for stages 1 and 2 (health workers, the elderly, and public servants) was 8,815,157 people. The total vaccination dose 1 was currently 3,239,251 people (36.8%), with the number of people being vaccinated in a 1-day dose as many as 107,600 people (Jakarta's proportion of vaccines is 37%). As for the total vaccination dose 2 now reached 1,880,997 people (21.3%), with the number of people being vaccinated in a 2-day dose as many as 5,826 people (the proportion of vaccines is 6%).

Then the achievement of vaccination for citizens aged 18-59 years, for dose 1 had been carried out to 2,644,205 people (33.5%) and vaccination for dose 2 covered 1,345,724 people (17.0%).

As for the elderly, vaccination dose 1 was done to 595,046 people (65.3%) and vaccination dose 2 included 535,273 people (58.7%).

In the public service, vaccination dose 1 was administered to 2,310,799 people (116.9%) and vaccination dose 2 included 1,215,119 people (61.5%), with a vaccination target of 1,976,757 people. While the mutual cooperation vaccination, for dose 1 had been given to 46,121 people and dose 2 covered 8,128 people.

Based on the daily reports on June 17 at 6 PM, there had been a total fine of Rp 5,550,000. So, it was hoped that the public could be more disciplined in implementing health protocols and participating in curbing the COVID-19.

Amid PPKM Mikro, residents wanting to enter the Jakarta area were urged to carry out independent COVID-19 check-up through the JakCLM via JAKI app. In this app, they could find out the risk of COVID-19 and got various health recommendations according to the risks they have. This contribution would help the government to prevent the diseases in Jakarta.

As for the information, the community also has the opportunity to donate with others in the large-scale social collaboration (KSBB) program. They can provide aid in the form of staple foods, fast food and cash. For further information, please visit corona.jakarta.go.id/kolaborasi.