Emergency

The number of Covid-19 patients at the Kemayoran Wisma Atlet Covid-19 Emergency Hospital (RSDC) Jakarta today, September 6, decreased by 150. The facility’s spokesperson Marine Colonel Aris Mudian said there are now only 778 people from previously 928 people. “The number of inpatients is 778 people, consisting of 376 men and 402 women,” he said in a written statement on Monday, September 6. The government operates four towers of the athlete’s dorm as the isolation centers for people with coronavirus disease, namely Towers 4-7. According to Aris, the total number of patients registered at Wisma Atlet from March 23, 2020, until today at 8 a.m. has reached 127,161 people. Of which, 126,383 patients were discharged as they have recovered, 1,021 patients were referred to other hospitals, and 594 patients succumbed to the disease. Since the end of May 2021, the number of patients in the capital city had skyrocketed. The daily confirmed cases reached above 10,000 per day. The hospital bed occupancy rate, both isolation beds and ICU beds, hit over 90 percent. Recently, the Covid-19 daily numbers in Jakarta have decreased dramatically, at around 300-400 people per day. The virus positivity rate is also below the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of less than 5 percent.