Jakarta Health Agency Suggests No Isolation for People with COVID-19
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14 June 2023 07:09 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Health Agency suggests that positive COVID-19 patients do not need to undergo self-isolation, but are obliged to wear face masks.
“I'm giving input to stakeholders that positive patients don't need to be isolated anymore but are obliged to wear masks,” the agency’s head of surveillance, epidemiology, and immunization unit Ngabila Salama said in Jakarta, Tuesday, June 13, as quoted from Antara.
She explained that however if it is difficult to monitor infection cases, independent isolation could only be for 3-5 days or while experiencing the symptoms.
“An independent isolation policy can be enforced for as long as you are symptomatic or 3-5 days, considering that the incubation lasts 1-3 days and 3-5 days after experiencing the symptoms, people have recovered,” Ngabila said.
Ngabila further stated that COVID-19 in Jakarta is under control. There were 540 positive cases recorded in the past week, with an average of 70 positive cases per day. There were also four deaths in the past week, where all of them were aged 50 years and over and had not received the fourth dose of vaccine or the second booster.
“Thank God, COVID-19 in Jakarta is very under control,” Ngabila remarked.
The hospital bed occupancy rate at the covid referral hospital, she went on, was 5 percent or only 94 out of 1,966 beds were occupied. The isolation bed or ICU occupancy rate also stood at 8 percent or 34 of 405 beds designated for positive patients were occupied.
Therefore, the Jakarta Health Agency calls on all people to always prevent illness by wearing a mask when meeting sick people. “Then prevent from having complications or death by controlling comorbidities with regular medication and complete vaccination of four doses for those aged 18 and over while they are available, free of charge, useful,” Ngabila said.
As of Tuesday, June 13, the COVID-19 Task Force recorded recovered cases in Indonesia increased by 278 to 6,638,544 cases. It is also reported that active cases dropped by 101 and the total number of patients currently being treated is 10,043.
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