Covid-19 Surge Driven by Year-end Long Holidays: Task Force
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Dewi Elvia Muthiariny
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Mahinda Arkyasa
Kamis, 7 Januari 2021 23:22 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's number of new Covid-19 cases recorded on January 7, 2021, had reached 9,321, the highest daily increase since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
The Covid-19 Mitigation Task Force spokesman Wiku Adisasmito, said that the surge was driven by the long Christmas and New Year holidays.
"This is the impact of a long holiday. It turns out that we have not yet succeeded in fixing and taking lessons from the previous three long holidays that we have conveyed repeatedly," said Wiku in a virtual press conference on Thursday, January 7, 2021.
For two consecutive days, Indonesia logged an all-time daily high of coronavirus infections. On January 6, 2021, there were 8,854 new cases, and the record was broken on January 7, 2021, with 9,321 cases.
Jakarta contributed the biggest number of daily cases with 2,398, followed by West Java with 1,416 cases, Central Java with 998 cases, and East Java with 948 cases. Other regions reported less than 500 new confirmed cases on January 7, 2021.
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