Jokowi Announces Dropping Hospital Bed Occupancy Rate to 48 Percent

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on late Sunday claimed that the government’s public activity restriction (PPKM) enacted in the past months succeeded in reducing the hospital bed occupancy rate, especially in the Java island. 

Among many facilities, Jakarta’s Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital also logged a low number of bed occupancies of 19.64 percent. On a national scale, Indonesia is currently recording a 48.14 percent bed occupancy.

“Alhamdullilah (Praise the God) the bed occupancies in Jakarta is around 29.4 percent, West Java has 32 percent, Central Java 38.3 percent, East Java 52.3 percent, Banten 33.4 percent, and Yogyakarta with 54.7 percent,” said the President in a video published at the Presidential Secretariat Youtube channel on August 15. 

However, the President reminded stakeholders to accelerate the national Covid-19 mass vaccination program that has reached an average of 1.6 million daily vaccinations during its peak. 

The former Jakarta governor added that the contact tracing enacted by the government currently averages at 130-140 thousand with a tracing indicator of 5-7. “Even though this sits in the medium category, I appreciate an improvement in this sector,” said Jokowi.

The PPKM Level 4 enactment in Java and Bali was extended on August 10 and is scheduled to end tomorrow on August 16, where the government will evaluate whether it will be extended again or not. 

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