Indonesia Predicted to See 95,000 COVID-19 Cases in May
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17 April 2020 08:05 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Expert team head of the national COVID-19 mitigation task force, Wiku Adisasmito, forecasted that Indonesia will deal with the peak of the novel coronavirus pandemic in May 2020.
“During the pandemic peak, the number of positive cases is predicted to cumulatively reach 95,000 cases,” he said during a press briefing with Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and the COVID-19 task force chief Doni Monardo on Thursday, April 16.
In fact, Wiku assumed the number of confirmed cases will continue to rise in June and July, reaching 106,000 cases.
However, the expert team head clarified that the prediction did not represent the actual figure and that the calculation was made by several predictors, researchers, and experts. “We have reviewed and combined all the predictions,” he added.
Wiku further stressed that the government was striving to ensure that the predictions about the pandemic peak will stand as a mere forecast. “We respect those figures. But we always try hard so that predictions do not come true,” he said.
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