Daily Cases of Covid-19 Reach 11,000, Predicted Majority of People are Infected with Omicron

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Indonesian epidemiologist at Griffith University Dicky Budiman said, an increase in daily cases of Covid-19 which broke at 11,588 on January 29, was like the tip of the iceberg.

He said that the transmission of the Covid-19 variant Omicron faster with reproduction numbers above 5.

“If Indonesia reports 11 thousand cases and even 20 thousand at once, that’s the tip of the iceberg. We must realize that this is a very rational mathematical calculation (of) growth. omicron This one has a short incubation period and a reproduction number above 5,” said Dicky when contacted by Kompas.com, Sunday (30/1/2022).

Dicky also said that the growth pattern of the Omicron variant was also faster, namely 2-3 days, so it was predicted that the majority of people had been infected with Omicron.

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However, he said, around 80-90 percent of Omicron’s Covid-19 cases have mild and moderate symptoms.

“This is what makes people not aware Moreover, in Indonesia, the literacy rate of our society towards Covid-19 is still very much needed,” he said.

Dicky encourages the implementation of 3T, namely inspection (testing), close contact tracing (tracing) and treatment (treatment) is increased as one of the mitigation efforts.

He said that if the 3T increase was delayed, it would have an impact on vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, and comorbid patients.

“If there is no strong mitigation in this increase in cases, this will spread to high-risk groups such as the elderly, co-morbidities, children. So in the future, victims can happen again, people are hospitalized, death can happen,” he said.

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Furthermore, Dicky said that the current increase in cases had not yet reached the peak.

Therefore, he advocates for maintaining bed capacity in hospitals for patients with moderate to severe symptoms.

“We are still at the beginning, not yet at the peak, don’t let the hospital fill up first, so we need to strengthen the referral system apart from being detected in the community, and of course here too. dropping From PPE and public services, drugs including oxygen need to be prepared,” he concluded.

Previously, it was reported that the daily cases of Covid-19 had increased again to 11,588 on Saturday (29/1/2022).

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The addition of daily cases was the highest since the last 5 months, namely on August 27, 2021, with the number of daily cases at that time reaching 12,618.

Thus, the total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Indonesia currently reaches 4,330,763.

The addition of daily Covid-19 cases was obtained after examining 383,401 specimens taken from 261,050 people.

Meanwhile, the Covid-19 Handling Task Force also reported 2,590 cases recovered from Covid-19, bringing the total cases to 4,133,923.

In addition, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 was reported to have increased by 17, bringing the total cases to 144,285.

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