DKI Jakarta has conducted Covid-19 checks on 43,000 people per one million population in a week. Spokesperson for the Covid-19 Task Force, Wiku Bakti Bawono Adisasmito, hopes that other provinces in Indonesia will follow the capabilities of DKI Jakarta.

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"The hope is to be able to imitate what has been best done in Jakarta," he said in a press conference, Tuesday (11/8).

Wiku said that DKI Jakarta does have advantages over other provinces. DKI Jakarta has many health facilities and human resources so that it is able to carry out massive Covid-19 tests.

"DKI Jakarta happens to have a high enough capability from the laboratory, human resources to carry out testing and active case finding so that they can find more cases, carry out more tests so that they can meet and exceed WHO standards," he said.

WHO sets the standard for real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) as many as 1,000 people per 1 million population per week. From these standards, Jakarta must carry out a minimum PCR examination of 10,645 people per week.

Head of the Public Health Division of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Fify Mulyani some time ago said that the number of PCR tests in Jakarta had exceeded the WHO target.

"Currently, the number of PCR tests in Jakarta every week is 4 times the WHO standard," he said.
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