Cases Rise Again Despite Decreasing Deaths, Post-Eid Covid-19 Update

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JAKARTA – The spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia has increased again compared to the last week. From the Covid-19 Task Force (Satgas) report, the graph is slowly starting to rise. Active cases became 464 infected people as of Thursday (12/5) yesterday.

The increase in active cases of Covid-19 was not directly proportional to the number of deaths, which on the contrary decreased. Today only 14 cases of death. While looking at the existing specimens, 167,339 have been tested, the result is that 4,946 cases were declared suspect.
DKI Jakarta Province is still the epicenter of the spread of this deadly epidemic. Today there are 100 cases with 2 deaths, while 33 recovered patients.

Followed by West Java with 54 cases. Today the number of recovered cases rose to 64 people. However, the number of deaths is higher than DKI Jakarta, namely 3 people.

East Java is still the region that occupies the third position with 41 new cases of Covid-19. Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients also increased to 32 people, of which 1 case died.

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Meanwhile, the distribution of Banten Province has not decreased. Today it increased to 39 cases, while the total recovered was only 3 cases, for the number of deaths to nil.

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In the midst of ongoing progress, the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said that the government’s policy to add three new vaccine variants to the basic immunization program for children is part of the transformation of primary health care.

“We have increased the number of mandatory immunizations for the community from 11 to 14 vaccines,” said Budi Gunadi Sadikin, when delivering a virtual press statement, Thursday (12/5).

Budi said the three new vaccines were HPV for the prevention of cervical cancer for mothers, PCV for pneumonia in toddlers and Rotavirus for preventing diarrhea in toddlers. “All vaccines are part of basic immunization,” he said.

According to Budi, the HPV vaccine is given because cervical cancer is the second cancer after breast which causes death for Indonesian mothers and women.

“Because there is no vaccine for breast cancer, while cervical cancer has a vaccine, we give it so that if we can we can prevent it,” he said.

The HPV and Rotavirus vaccines are targeted at children under five years of age because most child deaths come from infections, pneumonia and diarrheal infections. “The biggest cause of death due to infection among children already has a vaccine, namely PCV and Rotavirus vaccine,” he said. (*/tg)