JAKARTA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has considered pulling the emergency brake to stop the gradual reopening of several essential services sectors as cases of Covid-19 continue to soar in the capital city.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has considered pulling the emergency brake to stop the gradual reopening of several essential services sectors as cases of Covid-19 continue to soar in the capital city.
Nevertheless, Mr Anies vowed to monitor closely the positivity rate during the last days of the city's large-scale social restrictions period, which ends on Aug 27. "Since the start of the pandemic, the positivity rate in the country was 13.1 per cent with Jakarta reaching 5.9 per cent," he said."The number would be considered dangerous if it reached 10 per cent."
Jakarta reached its critical point as the capital saw rising hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients with a 40 to 50 per cent occupancy rate in July.
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