In total, 3,715,621 doses have been administered as of May 18 (2021) at 9 p.m. local time.Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Jakarta provincial government has claimed it has administered 3.7 million doses of the Sinovac and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to residents.
A total of 2,205,537 first doses and 1,510,084 second doses have been administered to the residents of the Indonesian capital, Vice Governor Ahmad Riza Patria disclosed on Wednesday.
"In total, 3,715,621 doses have been administered as of May 18 (2021) at 9 p.m. local time," he said.
Efforts to handle COVID-19 in Jakarta have led to an improvement, with the mortality rate pegged at just 1.7 percent and the recovery rate at over 95 percent of the total cases, as of May 18, 2021, he added.
As of Tuesday, the Jakarta administration has conducted polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on a total of 4,853,077 specimens, he informed.
"Jakarta's contribution to the national PCR tests currently stands at 36.8 percent," he said.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the capital reached 419,920 as of May 18, with 405,367, or 96.5 percent, of patients recovering from the infection, he added.
Meanwhile, the number of people succumbing to the infection reached 7,130, or 1.7 percent of the total cases.
"The occupancy rate of beds is 26 percent, that of ICU is 32 percent, and that of hotels for self-isolation is 34.4 percent," Patria said. (INE)
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