jpnn.com, JAKARTA - The bed occupancy rate in Jakarta's Covid-19 referral hospitals had reached 45 percent, said Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria.
Of the 3,922 beds available, 1,756 had been occupied, he detailed.
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"We should not go up to 60 percent," said Riza in Central Jakarta, Friday (28/1).
According to him, the bed occupancy rate once fell to 5 percent in Jakarta, but it increased again after the Omicron variant entered the country.
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"But we should understand that this is different from the previous month or year. [The cases] are predominantly asymptomatic,” Riza added.
The ICU occupancy rate has also started to creep up.
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Of the 611 ICUs available, 86 have now been filled.
The number of Omicron cases in Jakarta has reached 2,404, of which 1,039 were locally transmitted. (mcr4/mcr20/jpnn)
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