Jakarta Records Over 2,000 New Covid-19 Cases on December 29
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29 December 2020 22:29 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Health Agency's Head of Disease Prevention and Control Dwi Oktavia, announced that there had been 2,056 new additional Covid-19 cases recorded on December 29, 2020. As many as 1,391 of the new cases were found from 13,921 specimens tested through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
The rest was an accumulation from the latest data handed to the Jakarta Health Agency. "There were 665 accumulations in the last 10 days from two private-owned laboratories and the last two days were from state-owned hospitals," wrote Dwi in the statement.
The agency recorded that there are 15,077 active cases in Jakarta with a total of 179,660 cases of coronavirus infection since March 2020.
Out of the total number of cases in Jakarta, as many as 161,337 successful recoveries were recorded, which helped raise the recovery rate to 89.8 percent, while 3,246 patients passed away (1.8 percent mortality rate) due to the virus.
The agency said that the capital city's current positive infection rate remains at 12.1 percent while on the national level, the positive infection rate is recorded at a level of 8.7 percent, which is far beyond the WHO's standard of 5 percent.
ADAM PRIREZA
