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The Ministry of Health revealed that the availability of isolation rooms in all COVID-19 referral hospitals in various provinces in Indonesia is still adequate to treat COVID-19 patients.

Based on the Ministry of Health's press statement quoted in Jakarta, Wednesday, it was stated that in Indonesia there are 903 COVID-19 referral hospitals because the capacity of isolation rooms continues to increase.

"We have 132 Ministry of Health referral hospitals and 771 referral hospitals according to the Governor's Decree. With the increase in the number of referral hospitals, the capacity of hospitals with isolation rooms will increase,” said the Director of Referral Health Services at the Indonesian Ministry of Health, dr. Rita Rogayah Sp. P (K), MARS.

She said the isolation room continued to increase from March to October. From the COVID-19 referral hospital, there are 35 thousand beds, and from the referral hospital based on the Governor's Decree, there are 51,222 isolation beds.

"So now we see that the focus of attention is Jakarta. Jakarta has about 5 thousand beds. We can see this addition from this one month, where previously 4 thousand now have 6 thousand beds," she added.

She explained that Jakarta is one of the 11 priority provinces for handling COVID-19 by the government. The eleven provinces include DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Bali, Papua, Banten, and Aceh.

"Of the 11 existing provinces, the percentage of use of isolation rooms is still between 40 to 60 percent. The condition of the ratio of use of a bed to the isolation space is still sufficient. Hopefully, there won't be more cases, but we are preparing a COVID-19 referral hospital based on the Decree of the Minister of Health and the Governor," said Rita Rogayah.

Data reported by the COVID-19 Task Force until Wednesday (13/10) 2020 cases of COVID-19 increased by 3,906 cases, bringing the total to 340,622 cases. Meanwhile, 4,777 patients recovered with a total of 263,296 COVID-19 patients.

Meanwhile, cases of positive COVID-19 sufferers who have died have increased by 92 to 12,027 deaths. (Antaranews)