29 May 2020
The government spokesperson for the handling of the coronavirus (Covid-19) Achmad Yurianto said that the four provinces are regions that implemented Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) to suppress the spread of the coronavirus.
"Those are the regions that implemented PSBB," Yuri said when contacted CNNIndonesia.com, Thursday (28/5) morning.
Examined further, based on the corona case distribution map data from the Covid-19 Acceleration Task Force, the four provinces are still showing a significant increase in positive cases in the past two weeks.
Jakarta had experienced a slowdown in the increase in positive cases in mid-April to mid-May 2020. For example, in the period 13-27 April, the number of additional positive cases in Jakarta reached 1,619 cases.
This number then decreased in the next two weeks or the period of 28 April-12 May which recorded an additional 1,370 cases.
However, the increase in positive cases in Jakarta has increased again in the last two weeks, namely 13-27 May. During that period, there were added 1,414 positive cases of corona in the capital.
As of yesterday, the number of positive cases of corona in Jakarta has reached 6,895 cases. Of that number, 1,682 have recovered and 509 died.
Meanwhile, in West Java as of Wednesday (27/5) there were 2,157 cases or 9 percent of national cases. West Java is the third province to record positive cases of corona below Jakarta and East Java.
In the last two weeks, the addition of positive cases in West Java is also still not slowing down. From 13 to 27 May, an additional 613 cases were recorded in West Java.
The increase in cases over the past two weeks was higher than in the period two weeks earlier, 28 April to 12 May which only recorded an additional 566 cases.
This number is also still higher than the period 13-27 April which recorded an increase of 396 cases within a period of two weeks.
Then, in West Sumatra, the number of positive cases until yesterday, Wednesday reached 537 cases, or an increase of 198 cases in the last two weeks. Previously, on May 13, the number of positive cases in West Sumatra was only 339 cases.
The increase in positive cases over the past two weeks was still higher than the period of 28 April-12 May which recorded an additional 175 cases during that period.
Even in Gorontalo, the increase in positive cases has increased over the past two weeks. There were an additional 41 positive cases, counted from 13 to 27 May.
Whereas, in the previous period, 28 April-12 May, Gorontalo only recorded four additional cases in two weeks.
The discourse on the implementation of a new normal or a new way of life was previously mentioned by President Joko Widodo on Tuesday (26/5). To prepare for this, the government will deploy hundreds of thousands of military and police personnel to monitor and discipline citizens during the implementation of the new normal.
Jokowi will monitor developments over the next week. If there is any improvement, Jokowi stated that he will expand the same efforts to other provinces and regencies / cities.
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