TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ministry of Health said that 47 of the 145 cases of new Covid-19 variants found in Indonesia came from abroad. "There are of 47 imported cases and 98 local cases," the ministry's Covid-19 Vaccination spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi Jakarta, Wednesday, June 16.

Siti said that as of Sunday, June 13, 145 sequences of Variants of Concern (VoC) were detected from the total of 1,989 checked sequences. The variants are believed to be more infectious, causing symptoms that make patients worse.

In Indonesia, 36 cases were detected as B117 (Alfa), five cases B1351 (Beta), and 104 cases B1617.2 (Delta).

The highest number of these variants are found in Brebes, Cilacap, and Kudus, Central Java Province, which consisted of 75 Delta variant cases and one case of the Alfa variant.

In Jakarta, there were 24 cases of Alfa variants, 4 cases of Beta, and 20 cases of Delta.

Separately, WHO Southeast Asia's director of infectious diseases for the 2018-2020 period, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said the Delta variant has the characteristic of spreading rapidly.

"In the UK, there are 42,323 cases of the Delta variant, an increase of 70 percent or 29,892 cases in just one week. A very high increase," he said.

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