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The home-
coming flow
on christ-
mas and
new year’s
holidays seen
at Kampung
Rambutan bus
terminal in
East Jakarta.

Credit:
Dharma W.

than the national rate, the increase implied a
worrying condition. Recently, mortality rate of
COVID-19 in Jakarta was 1.6 percent, with a total
of 4,000 dead patients until end of January.

Must Not Underestimate

Head of Jakarta Health Agency Widyastuti told
JaKita that despite the hardwork of the city
government to curb the spread of COVID-19,
“Although [the effort] still the spikes in cases after christmas and new
ongoing, many has yet to year’s holidays reflected a still non optimal role
care.” of the residents in it. “Although [the effort] still
ongoing, many has yet to care,” said Widyastuti.
Widyastuti, Head of According to her, the spike in daily positive
cases in Jakarta should not be underestimated.
Jakarta Health Agency The increase made the previously two or three-
digit number of cases became four-digit cases,
which was around 2,000 until 25,000 cases per
day. Today, daily active cases in the city has
reached 20,000 patients per day.

For Widyastuti, the number represented
an extraordinary thing. The increase were

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