Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (centre) gives a speech during the launching ceremony of Jakarta Bermasker (Jakarta Wearing Mask) logo at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Feb. 3, 2021. - Antara
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Jakarta has seen an alarming resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the past week, with officials and experts saying that the capital is now in a “critical phase” and could see a higher spike than the last wave of infections in January.
On Sunday (June 13), Jakarta recorded some 2, 700 new confirmed cases – the highest since February, when the capital saw a surge of infections following the year-end holidays. The city's positivity rate, which is the percentage of positive results from all tests conducted, increased by 8 per cent to 17 per cent in the past week.
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