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The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 stated that the percentage of active COVID-19 cases at the national level continued to decline until it reached 19.17 percent as of October 14, 2020.

"We can see that the cumulative cases have continued to decline in proportion," said the Head of Data and Information Technology for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dr. Dewi Nur Aisyah in a press conference at Graha BNPB, Jakarta, Wednesday.

She said that the active cases were not calculated from the total cumulative number of COVID-19 cases available, but were obtained from the percentage of people who were sick, divided by the number of infected people.

Based on these proportions, the trend of active COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has continued to decline from March to October 2020.

"So since the beginning of the COVID-19 case was found in Indonesia in early March 2020 until now October 14, we can see that the graph has decreased," she said.

She reminds that the percentage of active COVID-19 cases was very dynamic. The percentage of active cases can continue to decline if there is a decrease in cases, but this percentage can also increase when there is a surge in cases.

"We can see, for example, at the end of July he had a chance to go down, then at the beginning, he went up a little bit again. In early September we experienced a notable increase in cases. When at the end of August it had reached a low point, but then it rises again in early September," she said, giving an example.

He hopes that the percentage of active cases will continue to decline, with more cases recovered than dead cases, so that there are fewer active cases.

"It means that if he goes down, all active cases have results, whether healed or if not, died. What we hope is certainly a cure," said Dewi Nur Aisyah. (Antaranews)