Jakarta – DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has officially slammed the brakes on the relaxations that had actually been used to massive social restrictions (PSBB) and revealed their total re-imposition to contain coronavirus spread.
The limitations had actually been unwinded as part of the shift towards the transitional PSBB.
” Considering the emergency situation in Jakarta, there are no other choices but to put the emergency brakes. This means that we need to execute the PSBB as it remained in the beginning of the pandemic. This is the emergency brake that we have to pull,” he said at a press statement at the Jakarta City Hall on Wednesday night.
His decision of reimposing the PSSB in the capital city was prompted by three signs that had raised the issue of the DKI Jakarta government, including the death rate, accessibility of seclusion beds and ICU facilities for COVID-19, as well as the rate of favorable cases.
The accessibility of beds is at maximum capability and they might be fully filled by the end of the month, if there are no constraints,” he explained.
The re-enforcement of massive social limitations will be effective from September 14, 2020, although Baswedan is yet to validate when it will be raised.
It has actually been reported previously that the positivity rate of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta has actually reached 13.2 percent, or above the safe variety of under 5 percent prescribed by the World Health Organization.
Based on DKI Jakarta federal government information, active cases in Jakarta, including clients getting treatment or undergoing isolation, have actually reached 11,245 as of Tuesday. The overall number of verified cases in Jakarta now stands at 49,837, with 37,245 recoveries and 1,347 deaths.
The information released by the DKI Jakarta Health Office on Wednesday likewise reveals that bed availability for day-to-day COVID-19 seclusion at 67 recommendation hospitals is at 77 percent of the overall capability of 4,456 beds.
The figures also show that there are 1,024 everyday seclusion beds for COVID-19 dealing with that are uninhabited.
Meanwhile, the tenancy rate at intensive care units (ICUs) has actually reached 83 percent of the capacity of 482 beds, leaving only 83 ICU beds staying in 6 7 recommendation healthcare facilities.
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