The capital, home to about 10 million people and three times that figure when counting those who live in surrounding towns, has been the epicenter of an outbreak that has pushed hospitals to the brink, with desperate scenes of people queuing for oxygen and being treated in parking lots.
"The situation is very different," Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said in a video address on Monday.The positivity rate, or the percentage of people testing positive to COVID-19, almost halved from 31.2% on July 15, to 15.9% on July 25, the data showed. Still, Anies stressed the pandemic was not yet over, particularly with the positivity rate several times higher than the guideline set by the World Health Organization.
Iwan Ariawan, a biostatistician at the University of Indonesia, told Reuters that Jakarta's cases were falling and "the epidemic curve is beginning to show its decelerating phase."
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