A view of the international terminal at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Badung, Bali, on September 29, 2022. - Antara Photo via Vietnam News/ANN
JAKARTA, Oct 16 (Vietnam News/ANN): Indonesia’s Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin expressed his optimism that Indonesia would be able to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic if there are no spike in cases until February 2023.
The minister said he hopes that health protocols and vaccination will be maintained and the pandemic will continue its declining trend.
Sadikin explained that if Indonesia can go through the December 2022-February 2023 period with a declining count in Covif-19 cases, then it would become a country with no surge in Covid-19 cases for a period of 12 months.
The first case of Covid-19 in Indonesia was confirmed in March 2020. According to data from the Covid-19 Handling Task Force, as of October 13, 2022, the nation has recorded 6,452,078 Covid-19 cases, 6,276,589 recoveries, and 158,263 deaths.
Meanwhile, Antara reported that the number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,678 on Saturday, with Jakarta recording the highest number of new cases at 577, the Indonesian Covid-19 Handling Task Force said.
With the additional cases, the total number of infections in Indonesia since the first case was confirmed in the country in March 2020 has touched 6,455,542, according to the task force.
After Jakarta, the provinces that recorded the most new infections on Saturday were West Java (261 cases), East Java (193 cases), Banten (165 cases), and Central Java (115 cases).
Currently, the number of active cases stands at 17,261, the task force reported.
Moreover, the number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 increased by 1,867 on Saturday, taking the total tally to 6,279,326.
The provinces that recorded the highest recoveries were Banten (654), Jakarta (578), East Java (188), and West Java (183).
The task force also reported that 20 patients succumbed to the virus on Saturday: 7 from Central Java, 3 from East Java, 2 from Jakarta, 2 from South Sulawesi, and 1 each from West Java, Jambi, Riau, Aceh, Bangka Belitung, and Lampung.
With the new fatalities, the overall death toll reached 158,301.
Further, as many as 3,794 people were listed in the suspected category as of Saturday based on tests conducted on 48,435 specimens in laboratories across the country.
