Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan gave directions to provincial leaders throughout Java and Bali as well as ministries and institutions in following up on Covid-19 deaths which increased significantly in the past week.
In the Coordination Meeting for the Follow-up of Intervention Steps to Reducing the Death Rate Due to Covid-10 in Java-Bali on Saturday (24/7), Luhut said the death rate increased due to several factors.
“From the results of the team’s research in the field, the death rate has increased due to several factors, the capacity of the hospital is already full, patients who come to have poor saturation, and die because they are not monitored while doing self-isolation at home,” Luhut explained, in an official statement, quoted by Antara. Sunday (25/7/2021).
Coordinating Minister Luhut added that the results of the field review found that on average the patients who died suffered from comorbidities or had not received the vaccine.
“Once we understand these factors, we must intervene to reduce the mortality rate rapidly,” he continued.
The intervention measures are to increase the ICU capacity of hospitals with central oxygen in areas with high mortality rates, to provide centralized and monitored isolation for high-risk patients who are self-isolating.
In addition, the Health Office was asked to coordinate with the TNI to obtain access to free drug packages from President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).
Not only that, the PPKM Task Force at the village level must also be reactivated and carry out close monitoring of every resident who is indicated to have Covid-19 symptoms.
Furthermore, the government will periodically implement mortality monitoring with a framework that includes the number of deaths that have been vaccinated, comorbid cases, age classification, availability of access to drugs, oxygen treatment, disease staging and exposure to cytokine storms and location of death.
This framework is applied so that the government can take mitigation steps in a strategic, comprehensive and targeted manner.
“The key in dealing with this pandemic is discipline and work hand in hand. By jointly and consistently carrying out and improving testing and tracing, it is hoped that this link will be broken,” concluded Coordinating Minister Luhut.
This coordination meeting was also attended by the Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the Governor of Bali Wayan Koster, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa, and Deputy Governor DKI Jakarta represents Anies Baswedan.
Then there is the Head of the Banten Province Health Service Ati Pramudji Hastuti, Mayor Surakarta Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Regent Karawang, and representatives of relevant ministries and agencies.
For the record, the Ministry of Health noted, cases of death due to Covid-19 in Indonesia have not been controlled, where in a day there were an additional 1,415 cases of death until Saturday (24/7) at 12.00 WIB. The most death cases in East Java with 356 cases to 17,840 cases.
Next is Central Java which recorded 338 cases to 16,550 cases. Then, DKI Jakarta recorded 151 deaths to 11,282 deaths.
As for Saturday, additional daily positive cases were recorded at 45,416, bringing the total positive cases in Indonesia to 3,127,826.
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