10-15 Percent COVID-19 Patients in Jakarta Not Jakarta Residents: Anies Baswedan

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said some 10-15 percent of COVID-19 patients in the capital were not Jakarta residents.

“Some of those [COVID-19 patients] treated in Jakarta are not Jakarta residents. Presently the number of those patients is around 10-15 percent, but the figure fluctuates,” Anies said at the Jakarta Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) building on Monday, September 7, 2020.

According to corona.jakarta.go.id, the number of COVID-19 active cases today reaches 11,047, with 4,082 patients hospitalized and 6,582 in self-quarantine.

Anies said the number of COVID-19 patients from outside of the capital previously reached 30 percent of the total active cases, which, according to him, suggests all residents must receive proper treatment once they get infected with COVID-19.

“There was a time when more than 30 percent of those [COVID-19 patients] in Jakarta were not Jakarta residents. To Jakarta, this means these are the people who require treatment so as to salvage others,” he said.

Anies also called on other regions to ramp up their COVID-19 testing capacity to help detect positive cases, particularly for the sake of high-risk patients.

Anies Baswedan said this was in line with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s instruction. “We hope the testing capacity is increased as instructed by the President,” he said.

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