Jakarta's Latest Official COVID-19 Figures as of August 19

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

The number of people tested last week has reached 85,099

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 17,916 specimens. 11,198 of them were to diagnose new cases with 513 positive and 10,685 negative results. In addition, an antigen test was also held today, where 8,590 were tested, with 190 positive results and 8,400 negative results.

She furthered the WHO test target is 1,000 people tested by PCR per million populations 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 f or some time. The number of people tested last week has reached 85,099, while 529,966 people have undergone the swab tests," she explained, as quoted by Jakarta PPID's press release, Thursday (8/19).

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

As for the number of active cases in Jakarta, date is 8,798 people who are undergoing self-isolation at home (including data of athlete's homestead) or decreased to 237 cases. While the total number of confirmation cases in Jakarta to date was 843,370 cases.

Of these cases,  821,451 people were cured with a cure rate of 97.4% and 13,121 people died with a world with a death rate of 1.6%, while Indonesia's death rate was 3.1%. The positivity rate in the last week in Jakarta was 7.9%, while Indonesia was 14.9%. WHO also set a standard percentage of positive cases of no more than 5%.

Meanwhile, the vaccination process is still ongoing. The total vaccination dose 1 was currently 9,240,308 people (103.3%), with the number of people being vaccinated in a 1-day dose as many as 49,372 people. As for the total vaccination dose 2 now reached 4,561,615 people (51.0%), with the number of people being vaccinated in a 2-day dose as many as 112,517 people. It should be noted that there is an adjustment to the vaccination target data in Jakarta, which totals to 8,941,211 people.

Then the achievement of vaccination for children aged 12-17 years, for dose 1 had been carried out to 77.4% and the second dose covered 30.6%. While for residents aged 18-59 years, for dose 1 had been carried out to 109.3% and vaccination for dose 2 covered 51.1%. As for the elderly, vaccination dose 1 was done to 85.2% and vaccination dose 2 included 72.5%. While the mutual cooperation vaccination, for dose 1 had been given to 187,348 people and dose 2 covered 140,791 people.

Based on the daily reports on August 17 at 6 PM, there had been a total fine of Rp 3,300,000 from the raid results during PPKM Level 4 period against residents without masks, restaurants, food stalls, and cafes, as well as in offices, workplaces, and places of business. Additionally, there was eight restaurants, food stalls, and cafes, which had been temporarily suspended, and one other place of business also temporarily suspended.

"Hopefully the public can be more disciplined in implementing health protocols and participating in curbing the COVID-19," she hoped.

To get vaccine, residents can go to the vaccination site. However, to speed up vaccination, they must register online via JAKI app or corona.jakarta.go.id/vaksinasi. By registering online, they may choose the schedule and place of vaccination themselves, as well as being able to pre-screening online test.

To find vaccination centers, you can access the Google Maps application, by writing "vaksin COVID-19".

The categories of residents 18+ who can be vaccinated in Jakarta are:

• Residents with Jakarta ID cards

• Residents with ID cards from outside Jakarta, but domiciled in Jakarta (bring domicile information obtained from the RT officer, not necessarily from the RT head)

• Workers in Jakarta who have ID cards from outside Jakarta (bring information from the workplace)

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.