VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

Mar. 8 - The Covid-19 tests carried out in Indonesia are far from the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

WHO has set a standard of screening 1: 1,000 population per week. With data on Indonesia's population of 270.2 million people, naturally around 270 thousand people are examined per week, as reported by CNN Indonesia, Sunday (7/3/2021).

Starting from the first case of March 2, 2020 to March 1, 2021, the number of tests carried out by the Indonesian government was 7,213,192 people with a total of 10,834,875 specimens.

This means that only 2.67 out of 270.2 million Indonesians were examined.

The government continues to strive to reduce the spread of the Corona virus.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) also extended the micro PPKM in a number of areas which will end soon on March 8, 2021.

PPKM Mikro which was implemented on February 9-21 is claimed to have produced positive statistics, namely the increase in positive cases of the Coronavirus tended to decrease in the seven provinces of Java-Bali.

Likewise with cases of death, also decreased in the seven provinces are DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, DI Yogyakarta, Banten, and Bali.

The government is also implementing a national vaccination program that started some time ago.

Jokowi targets that the Covid-19 vaccination can target 181 million people to create herd immunity or group immunity.

Previously reported, positive cases of Covid-19 increased by 5,826 people on Sunday (7/3/2021).

Thus, the total number of positive cases in Indonesia reached 1,379,662 people since the first case was announced on March 2, 2020.

As reported by CNN Indonesia, of this number, 1,194,656 people (an increase of 5,146 people) were declared cured, and 37,226 people (an increase of 112 people) died.

Meanwhile, there were 147,740 active cases, with an additional 568 compared to Saturday (6/3/2021).

Previously, positive cases of Covid-19 were exactly a pandemic year in Indonesia, reaching 1,347,026 on March 2, 2021. Of these, 1,160,863 were declared cured and 36,518 died. (RRI)