Medical staff checking on the state of equipment in an ICU room at the makeshift Wisma Atlet COVID-19 hospital in the former athletes village in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. - Jakarta Post/ANN
JAKARTA, Aug 3 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Medical workers in Jakarta are concerned about the increasing bed occupancy rates in the city’s hospitals and the increasing number of Covid-19 cases, with the capital extending on Thursday its transitional period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks.
The latest World Health Organization's (WHO) situation report on Indonesia, using Jakarta's data, showed that as of July 26 the city's bed occupancy rate – the number of people hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of Covid-19 divided by the number of isolation beds – stood at 66.9 per cent.
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