Jakarta's COVID-19 Positivity Rate Shows an Increasing Trend
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The Jakarta Provincial Government has decided to extend the transitional period of the Large-Scale Social Restriction (PSBB). This extension will run from July 17th to July 30th, 2020.
The extension of Jakarta's transitional PSBB is due to a resurgence in the positivity rate, averaging 5.9% over the past week (July 9th-15th). This figure is higher than the previous week's 5% (July 2nd-8th) and the 4.7% recorded from June 25th to July 1st.
Last Sunday (July 12th), the positivity rate in the capital even reached 8.7%, the highest since the implementation of the transitional PSBB. The World Health Organization sets a safe limit for a region's positivity rate at 5%.
The continued increase in the daily positivity rate of Covid-19 cases is also marked by a surge in new daily cases. Jakarta's additional cases even broke records three times in one week. The highest number of additional cases occurred last Sunday (July 12th) with 404 new cases, bringing the total to 14,361 cases.
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