Jakarta Logs 639 New Covid-19 Cases Today
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28 April 2021 23:03 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta provincial government today, April 28, recorded 639 more confirmed cases of Covid-19 over the last 24 hours. The city’s Health Agency Head of Disease Prevention and Control, Dwi Oktavia, said the additional cases were discovered from the PCR test results carried out on 10,830 people.
“There were 13,539 PCR test specimens examined today,” said Dwi in a written statement, Wednesday, April 28.
The city administration also conducted antigen tests on 5,066 people. From the results, 77 came back positive, while the rest 4,988 were negative. However, Dwi explained that the positive results of the antigen test in the capital were not included in the total caseload, “because all of them are reconfirmed by PCR.”
The total PCR test per one million population in Jakarta reached 348,303 as of today. Last week, the number of people tested for PCR amounted to 62,320. Meanwhile, the number of active cases throughout the capital increased by 19, bringing the total to 6,340.
The city’s positivity rate in the past week reached 9.2 percent, while the accumulated rate was 11 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) set the recommended safe rate below 5 percent.
To date, Jakarta’s Covid-19 total caseload is 406,844. Of the figure, 393,814 patients have recovered and 6,690 patients died. Thus, the recovery rate is 96.8 percent, while the death rate is 1.6 percent. “Meanwhile, Indonesia’s case fatality rate is 2.7 percent,” Dwi added.
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