(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Jakarta, Indonesia newly diagnosed more than 2,000 cases in a single day for 5 consecutive days
China News Agency, Jakarta, June 14 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) Indonesian officials announced on the afternoon of the 14th that there were 8,189 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the country that day, and a total of 1,919,547 confirmed cases; 237 new deaths and a total of 53,116 deaths.
Among them, the capital Jakarta newly confirmed 2722 cases that day, with a total of over 450,000 confirmed cases, reaching 450793 cases.
This is the fifth consecutive day that the number of newly confirmed cases in Jakarta has exceeded 2,000 in a single day since the 10th of this month.
The epidemic rebounded significantly after the Eid al-Fitr holiday in May.
The governor of Jakarta Province, Anis, said that the hospital bed utilization rate of the new crown hospitals in the province has exceeded 75%. If the number of cases continues to increase, the medical system will face tremendous pressure.
On the same day, when Indonesian President Joko visited a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination site in a large apartment in central Jakarta, he asked Jakarta to achieve the goal of 100,000 doses of vaccination per day from next week, so that the province will complete 750 by the end of August. Inoculation of ten thousand people, to achieve the goal of herd immunity in the province.
According to the Deputy Governor of Jakarta Province Patria, as of the 13th, the province has completed nearly 4.6 million doses of vaccinations.
Recently, the province took the lead in opening up vaccinations for ordinary people aged 18 and over in the country.
According to official data released by Indonesia, after the Eid al-Fitr holiday in mid-May, in addition to Jakarta, the number of new confirmed cases in a single day has increased sharply in many provinces including Central Java, East Java, Riau, and North Sumatra.
Local officials said that the first cases of mutated new coronavirus infections discovered in India are spreading rapidly in many places.
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